Laminar natural convection in an inclined complicated cavity with spatially variable wall temperature

Natural convection in two-dimensional enclosure with three flat and one wavy walls is numerically investigated. One wall is having a sinusoidal temperature profile. Other three walls including the wavy wall are maintained at constant cold temperature. This problem is solved by SIMPLE algorithm with deferred QUICK scheme in curvilinear co-ordinates. The tests were carried out for different inclination angles, amplitudes and Rayleigh numbers while the Prandtl number was kept constant. The geometrical configurations considered were namely one-, two- and three-undulations. The results obtained show that the angle of inclination affects the flow and heat transfer rate in the cavity. With increase in amplitude, the average: Nusselt number on the wavy wall is appreciably high at low Rayleigh number. Increasing the number of undulations beyond two is not beneficial. The trend of local Nusselt number is wavy. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.