Research Article
Numerical Simulation of Transient Free Convection Flow and Heat Transfer in a Porous Medium
Table 1
Comparison of FEM and FDM computation.
| | | | | FDM | FEM | FDM | FEM |
| | 0.1 | 0.5734 | 0.5737 | 0.9282 | 0.9286 | | 1.1 | 0.3750 | 0.3753 | 0.5588 | 0.5591 | | 2.1 | 0.2111 | 0.2113 | 0.3123 | 0.3125 | | 3.1 | 0.1090 | 0.1091 | 0.1618 | 0.1619 | | 4.1 | 0.0523 | 0.0524 | 0.0781 | 0.0781 | | 5.1 | 0.0231 | 0.0231 | 0.0347 | 0.0347 | | 6.1 | 0.0090 | 0.0090 | 0.0136 | 0.0136 | | 7.1 | 0.0024 | 0.0024 | 0.0038 | 0.0038 |
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