Abstract
A numerical analysis was made on a downward-facing plate for air, saturated vapor and saturated liquid. Basic equations for mass, momentum and energy are discretized by finite difference method and numerically solved by the HSMAC method. The computation domain is divided into many sub-spaces and arranged to investigate the edge effect of the plate. Velocity profiles obtained by numerical simulations agree well with those of experiments. The velocity and temperature fields are affected by Prandtl and Rayleigh number. Nusselt numbers are compared with experimetal datas.
