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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 17, 1990 - Issue 2
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NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF THE NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW ABOUT A HORIZONTAL CYLINDER USING SPLINES

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Pages 191-215 | Received 09 May 1989, Accepted 19 Sep 1989, Published online: 27 Apr 2007
 

Abstract

The present work is devoted to the numerical study of laminar natural convection flow from a heated horizontal cylinder under diverse surface boundary conditions using the spline fractional step method. A general formulation to treat mixed boundary conditions using the spline approximation has been presented. Numerical solutions have been obtained by solving the Navier-Stokes and energy equations. The results for the isothermal boundary condition as well as for the uniform heat flux are in good agreement with published experimental data and with other solutions presently available in the literature. Some new computations at very high Rayleigh numbers indicate the existence of attached separation vortices in the downstream plume region, the appearance of these vortices being dependent on the values of the Biot number. All results were computed on a personal computer using unequally spaced grids that provided good results with a minimum number of computational points. The numerical scheme presented here appears to be sufficiently versatile to permit computation of a large range of problems

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