Heat transfer from an isothermal vertical surface with adjacent heated horizontal louvers: Numerical analysis

The present study examines the influence of heated, horizontal, and rotatable louvers on the convective and radiative heat transfer from a heated or cooled vertical isothermal surface. The system represents an irradiated Venetian blind adjacent to the indoor surface of a window. Detailed heat transfer results were obtained using a steady, laminar two-dimensional, conjugate conduction/convection/radiation finite element model for two window temperatures (warm and cool compared to ambient) and irradiation levels, two louver to surface spacings, and three louver angles. The effect of the heated louvers on the heat transfer rate from the surface has been demonstrated.