Effect of wall inclination on natural convection in a porous trapezoidal cavity.

The present study investigates numerically the effect of wall inclination of a trapezoidal cavity on natural convective flow and heat transfer. The cavity is filled with porous medium. Sinusoidal temperature is applied on the inclined wall and the opposite wall is maintained at a constant temperature. The top and bottom walls are adiabatic. The Darcy model is adopted for porous medium. The governing equations are solved using the finite difference method with various values of wall inclination and Rayleigh number. The heat transfer of the square cavity is found to be higher than that of trapezoidal and triangular cavities.