Numerical study of natural convective heat transfer with large temperature differences

DOI10.1108/09615530110389117zbMath1009.76071OpenAlexW2006424943MaRDI QIDQ2729156

Bart Merci, Jan Vierendeels, Erik Dick

Publication date: 6 April 2003

Published in: International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/09615530110389117

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsmultigrid methodsquare cavityideal gasstretched gridnatural convective heat transferaveraged Nusselt numberexplicit third-order discretizationconvergence acceleratorlarge horizontal temperature differencesline-implicit central discretizationMach number solverSutherland's law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Free convection (76R10)

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