TY - JFULL AU - H.R.Goshayeshi and M.Fahim inia and M.M.Naserian PY - 2011/2/ TI - Numerical Modeling of Natural Convection on Various Configuration of Rectangular Fin Arrays on Vertical Base Plates T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering SP - 89 EP - 96 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1789 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 49, 2011 N2 - In this research, the laminar heat transfer of natural convection on vertical surfaces has been investigated. Most of the studies on natural convection have been considered constantly whereas velocity and temperature domain, do not change with time, transient one are used a lot. Governing equations are solved using a finite volume approach. The convective terms are discretized using the power-law scheme, whereas for diffusive terms the central difference is employed. Coupling between the velocity and pressure is made with SIMPLE algorithm. The resultant system of discretized linear algebraic equations is solved with an alternating direction implicit scheme. Then a configuration of rectangular fins is put in different ways on the surface and heat transfer of natural convection on these surfaces without sliding is studied and finally optimization is done. ER -