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

Figure 9

Temperature contours (on the left) and streamlines (on the right) with different numbers of undulations of wavy surface at Ra=10⁵, Pr=0.7, 𝐴=0.2, ℎ𝑥=0.55, ℎ𝑦=0.55, (a) 𝑛=1, (b) 𝑛=2, and (c) 𝑛=3.

(a) Maximum value of stream function Ψ_max=13.8240

(b) Maximum value of stream function Ψ_max=14.0910

(c) Maximum value of stream function Ψ_max=13.9413