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Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol.39, No.20, 1731-1752, 2018
Thermal and Moisture Transport Inhibitions in a Moist Air Saturated Enclosure Attached with Protruding Partitions for Built Energy Conservations
Combined heat and moisture transportation in an enclosure has been numerically investigated, which could benefit the sustainable building energy conservations and electronic cooling designs. An adiabatic and impermeable partition of finite thickness is considered, placed in the enclosure following an ordered arrangement. Effects of length and location of the partition, buoyancy ratio and thermal Rayleigh number on convective heat and moisture transfer rates in the enclosure are discussed. Firstly, this situation of the partition placed in the horizontal wall is studied, where inhibition effect of partition is observed. It is seen that the location of partition put relatively weaker influences on the heat and mass transfer in the regime of thermal-driven flow, when its length exceeds the critical value. Additionally, inhibition effect is more pronounced as the partition is fixed in center of vertical wall. Furthermore, local heat and mass transfer rates could be suppressed when the buoyancy ratio becomes negative. Finally, thermal Rayleigh number greatly affects the transport structures of fluid, heat and moisture, whatever aiding flow or opposing flow situations. Heat and mass transfer potentials could be promoted with increasing thermal Rayleigh numbers. Present work could be adopted to optimize the enclosure flows simultaneously with heat and moisture transport.