Natural Convection in an Enclosed Cavity
Abstract
We are concerned with the problem of buoyancy driven flow in a vertical, rectangular cavity whose vertical sides are at different temperatures and whose horizontal sides are insulated. An application of the dynamic A.D.I. method to obtain numerical solutions to this problem is described. For large non-dimensional temperature differences characterized by the Rayleigh number the flow patterns develop strong boundary layers. The boundary layers are resolved by applying the D.A.D.I. method to the discretization of this problem on a non-uniform grid.
- Publication:
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Journal of Computational Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0021-9991(84)90123-2
- Bibcode:
- 1984JCoPh..54..365P
- Keywords:
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- Cavities;
- Convection;
- Partial Differential Equations;
- Boundary Layers;
- Iterative Networks;
- Rayleigh Number;
- Thermal Insulation;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer