Numerical Study of Natural Convection within a Wavy Enclosure Using Meshfree Approach: Effect of Corner Heating

Figure 8

Temperature contours (on the left) and streamlines (on the right) with different wavy surface amplitudes at Ra=10⁵, Pr=0.7, 𝑛=2, ℎ𝑥=0.55, ℎ𝑦=0.55, (a) 𝐴=0.1, (b) 𝐴=0.2, and (c) 𝐴=0.4.

(a) Maximum value of stream function Ψ_max=13.5280

(b) Maximum value of stream function Ψ_max=14.0910

(c) Maximum value of stream function Ψ_max=16.1350