Free convection in a vertical channel with antisymmetrical heating is a special case that has not received a great deal of attention in the literature. Antisymmetrical heating is where the hot wall is heated above the ambient temperature by the same amount that the cold wall is cooled below the ambient, giving equal but opposing buoyancy forces inside the channel. An experimental model was constructed to study antisymmetrical heating inside an isothermally heated vertical channel. Flow visualization was used to obtain the flow field and laser interferometry was used to obtain the temperature field. Based on the measured temperature field, the local and average Nusselt numbers were determined, which were compared with numerical predictions obtained using ansys fluent. A range of Rayleigh numbers were studied for air with a Prandtl number of 0.71. The results show that an open-ended channel with antisymmetrical heating has some similarities to a tall enclosure. The average convective heat transfer can be approximated using an existing correlation for a tall enclosure from the literature.
Issue Section:
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