Conjugate Heat Transfer in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection in a Square Enclosure

Table 1

Comparison of the average Nusselt number between the present results and other works for various Rayleigh numbers and wall-to-fluid thermal conductivity ratios.

Kr	Ra=7.1×10^2			Ra=7.1×10^3			Ra=7.1×10^4
	1	5	10	1	5	10	1	5	10
Present	0.868	1.019	1.041	1.349	1.830	1.916	2.089	3.424	3.725
[7]	0.870	1.020	1.040	—	—	—	2.080	3.420	3.720
[18]	0.870	1.020	1.040	1.350	1.830	1.920	2.080	3.420	3.720
[19]	0.850	1.030	1.040	—	—	—	2.040	3.300	3.600