Étude numérique de l'influence du transfert radiatif sur la convection naturelle laminaire, bidimensionnelle, permanente, dans un espace annulaire d'axe horizontal, délimité par deux cylindres circulaires isothermes

Combined radiation and natural convection in a participating medium between concentric or vertically eccentric horizontal cylinders is investigated numerically. The annular medium is considered as a gray, emitting, absorbing, and isotropically scattering gas. The equations of steady, laminar, two-dimensional, thermal, natural convection are written by using a two-cylindrical coordinate system, the stream function, and the vorticity. The finite volumes method is used to discretize the coupled equations of momentum, energy, and radiative transfer. To solve the global nonlinear algebraic equations the successive-over-relaxation iterating scheme is applied. Numerical solutions are obtained for a Rayleigh number in the range 10³–10⁵ and radiation-conduction parameter ranging from 0 to ∞. The influences of radiation-conduction parameter, Rayleigh number and other parameters on flow and temperature distributions and heat transfer are discussed.