Natural Convection in a Differentially Heated Square Enclosure with a Solid Polygon

Figure 2

Comparison of the present computed heatlines (a, c) against that of Zhao et al. [5] for quadrilateral, 𝑁=4 (b) and Costa and Raimundo [12] for cylinder, 𝑁=∞ (d) at Ra=10⁵, 𝑋₀=0.5, and 𝐾_𝑟=1.

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