Contemporary review on natural convection in plain media
摘要
Natural convection is extensively applied, serving as a crucial mechanism for heat transfer in various systems. Its applications extend across diverse fields such as environment, agriculture, manufacturing, aviation, electronic component cooling, geophysics, power plants, and industrial processes. This review paper precisely focuses on exploring different enclosure shapes filled with a homogeneous media where natural convection serves as the primary mode of heat transfer. The investigation delves into the impact of several parameters, including the type of heat sources, thermal conditions of the boundary, Rayleigh number (Ra), Prandtl number (Pr), inclination angle, among others. Additionally, the current analysis incorporates the examinations of entropy generations within the systems to optimize their efficiency.