The Natural Convective Heat Transfer in a Partially Divided Enclosure: A Study on the Influence of the Source Position

Table 1

Comparison between average experimental Nusselt numbers and numerical ones on the lateral sides for δ = 0.5.

Ra	Nu rg exp	Nu rg num	Δ%	Nu lf exp	Nu rg num	Δ%
1.24𝐸 + 05	9.04	8.98	0.61	9.07	8.98	1.00
1.46𝐸 + 05	9.38	9.40	−0.19	9.32	9.39	−0.78
1.76𝐸 + 05	9.98	9.89	0.90	9.9	9.89	0.14
2.05𝐸 + 05	10.4	10.31	0.87	10.41	10.31	0.87
2.25𝐸 + 05	10.86	10.57	2.68	10.8	10.57	2.16