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Natural convection in enclosures with localized heating from below ...

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10,5<br />

526<br />

Figure 4.<br />

Variation of the local<br />

Nusselt number Nu at<br />

the heated wall for<br />

various Rayleigh<br />

numbers at = 2/5<br />

Figure 5.<br />

Variation of the average<br />

Nusselt number Nu at<br />

the heated wall <strong>with</strong> the<br />

Rayleigh number for<br />

various nondimensional<br />

heat source lengths,<br />

adiabatic wall through which it moves horizontally toward the correspond<strong>in</strong>g<br />

cold wall and f<strong>in</strong>ally it descends along the correspond<strong>in</strong>g cold wall under the<br />

effect of cool<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

Figure 2 illustrates the streaml<strong>in</strong>e and isotherm patterns obta<strong>in</strong>ed for = 1/5.<br />

For Ra =10 3 , the circulation <strong>in</strong>side the enclosure is so weak that the viscous

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