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

Table 2

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

Ra	Nu up exp	Nu up num	Δ%
1.24𝐸 + 05	3.36	3.67	−9.29
1.46𝐸 + 05	3.42	3.74	−9.43
1.76𝐸 + 05	3.525	3.82	−8.47
2.05𝐸 + 05	3.72	3.89	−4.60
2.25𝐸 + 05	3.93	3.93	−0.05