Symbolic Calculation for Free Convection in a Circular Cavity With Periodic Heat Generation
Kamyar Mansour · Volume 2: Theory and Fundamental Research; Aerospace Heat Transfer; Gas Turbine Heat Transfer; Computational Heat Transfer · 2009
We consider the two-dimensional problem of steady natural convection in a circular cavity with periodic heat generation filled with viscous fluid subject to cosine temperature variation on the boundary. The solution is expanded for low Rayleigh number and extended to 16 terms by computer. Analysis of these expansions allows the exact computation for arbitrarily accuracy up to 50000 figures. Although the range of the radius of convergence is small but pade approximation leads our result to be good even for higher value of the similarity parameter.