Use of Finite Element Method for Free Convection of Nanofluids between a Rectangular Enclosure and a Sinusoidal Cylinder Using Buongiorno’s Two-Phase Model

Table 3

Differences in the average Nusselt number and Rayleigh number for different values of the controlling parameters, , , and .

10^3	0	2.5109	2.4121	2.5155	2.1995
	0.01	2.8325	2.7211	2.8377	2.4812
	0.02	3.0191	2.9003	3.0246	2.6446
	0.03	3.1750	3.0501	3.1808	2.7812
	0.04	3.3138	3.1835	3.3199	2.9029
10^4	0	2.5262	2.4269	2.5304	2.2105
	0.01	2.8457	2.7338	2.8506	2.4907
	0.02	3.0312	2.9120	3.0364	2.6533
	0.03	3.1862	3.0609	3.1918	2.7892
	0.04	3.3244	3.1936	3.3302	2.9104
10^5	0	3.4154	3.2253	3.4215	2.8980
	0.01	3.7049	3.5090	3.7108	3.1528
	0.02	3.8652	3.6672	3.8710	3.2949
	0.03	3.9962	3.7967	4.0019	3.4115
	0.04	4.1109	3.9103	4.1165	3.5139
10^6	0	6.7172	6.2814	6.7380	5.7093
	0.01	7.3218	6.8445	7.3447	6.2170
	0.02	7.6542	7.1536	7.6784	6.4956
	0.03	7.9232	7.4034	7.9487	6.7210
	0.04	8.1567	7.6200	8.1833	6.9165