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

Table 1

Comparison of mean Nusselt obtained by present technique with benchmark solutions of De Vahl Davis [2], Barakos et al. [22], and Fusegi et al. [23] for natural convection within a square cavity.

Ra	10^3	10^4	10^5
Nu [2]	1.118	2.243	4.519
Nu [22]	1.114	2.245	4.510
Nu [23]	1.105	2.302	4.646
Nu (present) with 17×17 nodes	1.016	2.239	4.499
Nu (present) with 26×26 nodes	1.119	2.248	4.528
Nu (present) with 41×41 nodes	1.119	2.250	4.535