Re: Natural Convection and FEM

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From: Andy Mell
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:14

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In article <Bzn6oH.1HE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> hmiller@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Harry Miller) writes:
>I'm looking for any refernces, tips, examples, etc. of 
>natural convective heat transfer using FEM.
>
>I'm doing work on a FEM program to calculate velocity and
>temperature profiles along the boundary layer of a flow along
>the length of a heated cylinder.

Dont bother with FEM, its overcomplicated for problems such as this. I suggest
you take a look at this paper, which deals with exactly what you want.

Pulko, Green, Johns - TLM and thermal diffusion, Int.J.Num.Meth.Eng, vol.24
pp1333-1341, 1987

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