Free Convection Heat Transfer in a Stably Stratified Fluid Between Vertical Plates (The Third Report, Numerical Analysis of Heat Transfer under the Constant Temperature Wall Using Finite Element Method)

Abstract

A numerical analysis on the free convection heat transfer in a stably stratified fluid between vertical plates under the constant temperature wall is performed. A Galekin finite method is employed for the analysis of this double diffusive natural convection. Computations are carried out for the Prandtl number Pr=13.6,the Lewis number Le=333,an aspect ratio A=11.25,in the range of the Rayleigh number from 9.13x(10)^5 to 2.74x(10)^6 and for the various buoyancy ratios corresponding to the experimental condition in the previous report. The results of numerical analysis are compared with the experimental results and are discussed.