Higher order boundary layer free convection from a vertical flat plate with uniform heat flux at the wall
Abstract
By means of an analogy with the forced convection problem and the use of a free stream convective Reynolds number the Navier-Stokes equations and the heat energy equation in a 2-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system are transformed into boundary layer equations which are reduced to ordinary differential equations by applying a Prandtl number stretching technique. Matched asymptotic expansions are used in the double boundary layer arising from free convection from the vertical flat plate whose heat flux at the wall is kept constant. Heat transfer and skin-friction parameters are calculated for various values of the Prandtl number and comparisons are made with earlier results available.
- Publication:
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4th National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978nhmt.conf..261T
- Keywords:
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- Boundary Layer Flow;
- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Flat Plates;
- Free Convection;
- Heat Flux;
- Thermal Boundary Layer;
- Asymptotic Series;
- Heat Transfer Coefficients;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Perturbation Theory;
- Prandtl Number;
- Skin Friction;
- Transformations (Mathematics);
- Wall Temperature;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer