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Inclination angle implications for fluid flow and mixed convection in complex geometry enclosure-meshless numerical analyses
 
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran
 
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran
 
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan
 
 
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2015;53(3):519-530
 
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The meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is extended to analyze the mixed convection and fluid flow in an inclined two-dimensional lid-driven cavity. The enclosure considered comprises two insulated vertical walls and a wavy bottom wall which is subjected to a higher constant temperature than its top counterpart, the sliding lid. For the proposed scheme, the stream function formulation with a weighting function of unity is employed. The simulation results reveal that the local Nusselt number increases with a clockwise increase in the inclination angle. Also, a decrease in the aspect ratio results in an increase in the hot wavy wall average Nusselt number.
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