Unsteady Laminar Natural Convection from a Non-Isothermal Vertical Cone

Natural convection effects of the numerical solution for unsteady, laminar, free convection flow over an incompressible viscous fluid past a non-isothermal vertical cone with surface temperature T′w(x) = T′∞ + axn varying as power function of distance from the apex (x = 0) is presented here. The dimensionless governing equations of the flow that are unsteady, coupled and non-linear partial differential equations are solved by an efficient, accurate and unconditionally stable finite difference scheme of Crank-Nicolson type. The velocity and temperature fields have been studied for various parameters Prandtl number, semi vertical angle 0◦ < φ < 90◦ and n. The local as well as average skin-friction and Nusselt number are also presented and analyzed graphically. The present results are compared with available results in literature and are found to be in good agreement.