Coupling of Conduction with Laminar Natural Convection Flow from a Vertical Flat Plate

Abstract

In this paper the thermo-fluid-dynamic field resulting from the coupling of natural convection along and conduction inside a heated flat
plate is studied by means of implicit finite difference method in the entire region starting from the lower part of the plate to down stream.
The results in terms of shear stress coefficient and surface temperature coefficient for different Prandtl number are compared with the
perturbation solution near the lower part of the plate and asymptotic solution in the down stream region and founded in excellent agreement.