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EFFECTS OF BUOYANCY PARAMETER ON UNSTEADY 3D DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION IN MOLTEN PB-SN ALLOYS

Maatki Chemseddine, Hakan F. Oztop, Lioua Kolsi, Abdullah A.A.A. Al-Rashed, Mohamed Naceur Borjini, Abu-Hamdeh Abu-Hamdeh
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer (FHMT) 8 - 33 (2017)


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 = 5×103. It is found that changing of buoyancy parameter becomes more effective on heat transfer than that of mass transfer.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5098/hmt.8.33

ISSN: 2151-8629