Theoretical and Experimental Study of Transient and Steady-State Natural Convection Heat Transfer from a Vertical Flat Plate Partially Immersed in Water

Transient and steady-state heat transfer by natural convection from a vertical flat plate has been investigated both numerically and by experiment. The plate, loaded with a uniform and constant heat flux is positioned in a square container partially filled with liquid and gas. Solutions have been obtained for one set of thermophysical property ratios and for modified Rayleigh numbers up to Ra\ast- = 108. This range has also been covered by experiments. Good agreement between calculated and measured results is obtained