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- From: hmiller@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Harry Miller)
- Subject: Natural Convection and FEM
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:50:41 GMT
- Keywords: Natural Convection, FEM
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- I'm looking for any refernces, tips, examples, etc. of
- natural convective heat transfer using FEM.
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- 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.
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- I'm not sure how to treat the continuity equation. Usually in
- fluid flow (convective) problems FEM methods treat the continuity
- equation as a parameter and use either Lagrange (sp?) multipliers
- or penalty parameters. Since these both use the gradient of the
- pressure, these methods are not useable in natural convection.
- I do not want to use stream functions if I do not have to.
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- Also, I've never done a FEM program in cylindrical coordinates.
- Any help or references would be appreciated.
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- Harry E. Miller ----------------- just a jerk lurking on the net
- hmiller@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu ----- where to send the hate mail
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