An empirical solution to turbulent natural convection and radiation heat transfer in square and rectangular enclosures

► Previous work has non-dimensionalised flow in enclosures with and without radiation. ► This extends the work by enabling a simple iterative technique to work out temperatures for total heat transfer rate. ► The provided solution has a maximum deviation of 7.7%. ► The method works for a variety of enclosures sizes, aspect ratios, temperatures and gases.