Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Current work attempts to study the heatline patterns during natural convection for different types of Dirichlet heatfunction boundary conditions.The enclosures with various shapes (square, curved, trapezoidal, tilted square and parallelogrammic) are considered with various thermal boundary conditions such as (a) case 1: hot left wall, cold right wall and adiabatic horizontal walls, (b) case 2: hot bottom wall, cold left and right walls and adiabatic top wall and (c) case 3: hot bottom wall with other cold walls.Traditionally, the reference of heatfunction (Π