CONJUGATE PROBLEM OF THERMOGRAVITATIONAL
CONVECTION IN A RECTANGULAR REGION WITH
A LOCAL HEAT SOURCE

G. V. Kuznetsova and M. A. Sheremetb 

UDC 669.86:536.21


Mathematical simulation of conjugate convective-conductive 
heat transfer in a closed rectangular region in the presence of a 
heat-release source is carried out. The distributions of the thermal 
and hydrodynamic parameters that characterize the basic laws of the 
process investigated have been obtained. The possibilities of a more 
detailed description of both the temperature fields of the system 
as a whole and of maximum temperatures using a plane conjugate model 
of convective-conductive heat transfer are shown.

aTomsk Polytechnic University, 30 Lenin Ave., 
Tomsk, 634050, Russia; bTomsk State University, 
36 Lenin Ave., Tomsk, 634050, Russia; email: Michael-sher@yandex.ru. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 
90-96, January-February, 2008. Original article submitted 
September 12, 2006.