Simulations of natural convection heat transfer in an enclosure at different Rayleigh number using lattice Boltzmann method》.pdfVIP

ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Highlights  Dimensionless distance of heated source strongly affects the turbulent intensity.  Flow still keeps soft turbulent convection at dimensionless distance of 0.2 and 8 Ra=10 .  Flow in cavity becomes fully turbulent natural convection at Ra=109 .  Core region scaling seems to approach the behavior of a passive scalar as Ra increases. T P