Natural convection is the governing phenomena in many material processing applications. The conventional method of uniform heating at the bottom wall of an enclosure may result in inadequate thermal mixing and poor temperature distribution leading energy wastage. In this work, an alternative,...

Numerical simulation for natural convection flow in fluid filled enclosures with curved side walls is carried out for various fluids with several Prandtl numbers (Pr = 0.015, 0.7 and 1000) in the range of Rayleigh numbers (Ra = 103–106) for various cases based on convexity/concavity of the...