• Title of article

    Analytical study of natural convection in high Prandtl number

  • Author/Authors

    Nadim، نويسنده , , N. and Domairry، نويسنده , , G.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    1056
  • To page
    1061
  • Abstract
    In case of natural convection modeling, when Boussinesq assumption is used, we encounter coupled nonlinear differential equations. In this work, the authors have modeled natural heat convection by implementing one of the newest analytical methods of solving nonlinear differential equations called homotopy analysis method (HAM), which gives us a vast freedom to choose the answer type. We have used an iterating analytical method in order that cope with nonlinearity. Also, we apply some provisions because of particular difficulties that are caused by coupling problem. A new adapting boundary condition is proposed in this work that is based on an initial guess and then it is developed to the solution expression. We must notice that HAM is applied to our case study according to the physics of the target problem.
  • Keywords
    Natural convection , Homotopy analysis method (HAM) , heat transfer
  • Journal title
    Energy Conversion and Management
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Energy Conversion and Management
  • Record number

    2334623