We consider the two-dimensional problem of steady natural convection in a circular cavity with periodic heat generation filled with viscous fluid subject to cosine temperature variation on the boundary. The solution is expanded for low Rayleigh number and extended to 16 terms by computer. Analysis of these expansions allows the exact computation for arbitrarily accuracy up to 50000 figures. Although the range of the radius of convergence is small but pade approximation leads our result to be good even for higher value of the similarity parameter.
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Theory and Fundamental Research
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