Etude du transfert thermique conjugue dans les cavites rectangulaires en convection naturelle

Energy conservation is one of the most important areas of research and development. In parallel and in conjunction with it, developing clean energy technologies using renewable energy sources is similarly an important area to provide a sustainable energy supply. In this way, the quality of life will continue to flourish and at the same time the environment will be protected. For this purpose, devices operating on the principal of passive utilization techniques are used in different applications such as solar collectors, passive cooling and heating of buildings and others. Many of these applications make use of open and/or closed enclosures having different geometries, in which heat transfer by natural convection is used often with conjunction of conduction and surface radiation. To have the best thermal performance of these devices, the understanding of conjugate heat transfer in basic geometries is essential.;Four specific configurations have been studied. The first one is a closed square inclined cavity containing a massive wall. The second configuration is an open cavity. The last two configurations involve passive cooling and heating systems in which the air circulates in long vertical channels.;Numerical results for all the configuration show that radiative heat transfer represents an important part of the total heat transfer for all studied configurations. In the case where surfaces are assumed to be black bodies, this part is at least 25% and can increase up to 97%, i.e. air circulation is enhanced by surface radiative exchange. On the other hand, it is shown that heat exchange by surface radiation makes the surface temperatures more uniform as a result of which natural convection is reduced. As expected, the wall conductance is an important parameter in the conduction heat transfer through the wall and hence in the thermal performance of the massive wall. More specifically for each studied case, the obtained results are the following: (i) the close cavity inclination has a significant effect on the flow field; its effect is enhanced when the heat source is placed in the upper part of the flow domain. (ii) the aspect ratio of the open cavity affects the air circulation but its influence on the heat transfer is less important; (iii) the heat transfer by natural convection increases with the wall conductance for the case of solar chimney, and thus, the ventilating capacity of the channel is enhanced; (iv) the thermal efficiency of the passive system with thermal mass is reduced when the heat exchange by surface radiation is accounted for and the temperature difference between both external vertical boundaries increases.;The aim of this thesis is to study the influence of conduction and radiation heat transfer on natural convection in rectangular enclosures with different geometries and properties. A mathematical model of the system is developed which combines heat transfer by convection, conduction and radiation. A numeric code based on the volume control method is developed to simulate open and close systems with different geometries, in which the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy are solved using the control volume method and the radiation heat exchange equations are added by calculating radiative heat flux on the emitting surfaces and treating it as a local heat source for the conjugate heat transfer by the three modes.