Entropy Generation Due to Natural Convection in a Partially Heated Cavity by Local RBF-DQ Method

S. Soleimani, A. Qajarjazi, H. Bararnia, Amin Barari, G. Domairry1

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    Abstract

    The Local Radial Basis Function-Differential Quadrature (RBF-DQ) method is applied to twodimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in primitive form. Numerical results of heatlines and entropy generation due to heat transfer and fluid friction have been obtained for laminar natural convection. The variations of the entropy generation for different Rayleigh numbers are also investigated. Comparison between the present results and previous works demonstrated excellent agreements which verify the accuracy and flexibility of the method in simulating the fluid mechanics and heat transfer problems.
    Original languagePortuguese
    JournalMeccanica
    Volume46
    Issue number5
    Pages (from-to)1023-1033
    Number of pages11
    ISSN0025-6455
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Keywords

    • Entropy generation
    • Heatlines
    • Radial basis function
    • Mesh-free method
    • Natural convection
    • Cavity

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