We consider the spectral discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the heat equation where the viscosity depends on the temperature, with boundary conditions which involve the velocity and the temperature. This problem admits a variational formulation with three independent unknowns, the velocity, the pressure and the temperature. We prove optimal error estimates and present some numerical experiments which confirm the validity of the discretization.
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