Abstract
The contribution deals with 2D laminar unsteady natural convection in a wedge-shaped reservoir model induced by the isothermal surface heating of a water basin being colder than surrounding atmosphere. The problem formulation considered corresponds to large-scale convection development during a cloudy day when the solar radiation impact is negligible. Numerical simulation was performed using an in-house Navier-Stokes code SINF. The focus of the paper is on the accurate resolution of the initial period of the convective circulation pattern development. The dependence of the predicted convective structures on the computational domain size as well as on the boundary condition at the free surface is analysed. The influence of geometry on the buoyancy-induced flow formation is discussed.
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