Finite element simulation of natural convection within porous trapezoidal enclosures for various inclination angles: effect of various wall heating (Q840836)

This paper deals with the natural convection within porous trapezoidal enclosures where the bottom wall is uniformly heated and vertical wall(s) are linearly heated or cooled whereas the top wall is well insulated. The effect of geometry is illustrated for various angle of the side wall. The authors use Galerkin FEM with penalty parameter to solve the nonlinear coupled PDEs governing flow and temperature fields for both uniform and sinusoidaly varying temperature distribution prescribed at side walls. Some numerical results are presented.