Effect of Nanoparticles and Base Fluid Types on Natural Convection in a Three-Dimensional Cubic Enclosure

Table 3

Comparison of present numerical results for the average Nusselt number with other authors.

Ra	10^3	10^4	10^5	10^6
Present study	1.073	2.077	4.373	8.698
Tric et al. [13]	1.070	2.054	4.337	8.641
Ravnik et al. [14]	1.071	2.056	4.343	8.679
Ternik [15]	1.071	2.049	4.327	8.627
Fusegi et al. [24]	1.085	2.100	4.361	8.770
Peng et al. [25]	1.075	2.085	4.378	—
Lo et al. [26]	1.071	2.054	4.333	8.666