ABSTRACT
Recently, an increased attention is turned to the problem of the natural convection heat transfer from a heated vertical plate due to its increasing importance in many industrial and technological applications. In the present paper, the numerical simulation of natural-convective heat transfer of a heated vertical plate subjected to periodic boundary conditions is carried out. The numerical approach applied here is based on solving the set of the governing equations using the control volume technique over a non-staggered grid system. In our algorithm, the implicit fractional step-non iterative method is applied to obtain the velocity and the temperature fields. The exact solutions for the classical Stoke’s problem and the similarity solution are used to verify the numerical results obtained. The comparison of the numerical results obtained showed that the present numerical method applied can be used in such applications with confidence.
