...Kleber Marques Lisboa; Jian Su; Renato M. Cotta Purpose The purpose of this work is to revisit the integral transform solution of transient natural convection in differentially heated cavities considering a novel vector eigenfunction expansion for handling the Navier-Stokes equations...

... length and position of the heat source on the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics. Transient natural convection Finite element method Fluid-structure interaction Elastic wall Inner solid cylinder Local isothermal heater The 2D transient laminar flow of natural convection...

...Ammar I. Alsabery; Ishak Hashim; Ali J. Chamkha; Habibis Saleh; Bilal Chanane Purpose This paper aims to study analytically and numerically the problem of transient natural convection heat transfer in a trapezoidal cavity with spatial side-wall temperature variation. Design/methodology/approach...

.... Professor Abderrahmane Baïri can be contacted at: bairi.a@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Dirichlet thermal boundary condition Hemispherical cavity High Rayleigh number Nu-Ra-Fo correlations Thermal engineering Transient natural convection a thermal...

... Transient natural convection Concentric annuli NOMENCLATURE a local heat transfer coefficient based on area of heat transfer surface [ = q/(Tw T0)] average heat transfer coefficient over the annulus height [ = Dwl(Tw T0) = 1o adz/l] b annular gap width ( = r2 r1) Cp specific heat of fluid...