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EFFECTS OF BUOYANCY PARAMETER ON UNSTEADY 3D DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION IN MOLTEN PB-SN ALLOYS
Maatki Chemseddinea
, Hakan F. Oztopb,c,*, Lioua Kolsia,d, Abdullah A.A.A. Al-Rashede
, Mohamed Naceur Borjinia
, Nidal Abu-Hamdehc
a Unité de Recherche de Métrologie et des Systèmes Energétique, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs, Monastir, University of Monastir, Tunisia
b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technology Faculty, Fırat University, Elazig, Turkey
c Department of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering College, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
d College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Haïl University, Haïl City, Saudi Arabia
e Dept. of Automotive and Marine Engineering Technology, College of Technological Studies, The Public Authority for Applied Education and
Training, Kuwait
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2017, 8, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.8.33
Abstract
A computational study has been made for a three dimensional double diffusive convection with molten Pb-Sn by using finite volume method. In this
work, two vertical walls have different temperature and different concentration while remaining walls are adiabatic. Buoyancy ratio, which changes
between N = -0.1 and -10, is the main governing parameter during work. Other parameters are taken as fixed with Pr = 0.02, Le = 7500 and Ra =
5×10
3
. It is found that changing of buoyancy parameter becomes more effective on heat transfer than that of mass transfer.
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Chemseddine, M., Kolsi, L., Al-Rashed, A. A. (2017). EFFECTS OF BUOYANCY PARAMETER ON UNSTEADY 3D DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION IN MOLTEN PB-SN ALLOYS.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 8(1), 1–9.