Influence of chimney width on the natural convection cooling of an vertical finned plate

摘要

We investigated natural convection heat transfer for a finned plate inside a chimney for application in reactor cavity cooling systems (RCCSs). To achieve a large Rayleigh number, the mass transfer rates were measured rather than the heat transfer rates, exploiting the analogy between heat and mass transfer systems. Experiments were carried out with systematically varied fin heights, fin spacings, chimney heights, and chimney widths, and for large Rayleigh numbers (of up to 2.91 x 10(7)). The ex