The measurement and prediction of heat transfer in a turbulent boundary layer in water
Abstract
A baseline thermal boundary layer in water is documented and compared to the experimentally determined behavior with that predicted using a computational model accepted by the heat transfer design community. The predictions of STAN6, a finite-difference code using a standard mixing length model, compare well with the measurements of both the Stanton number distributions and the mean temperature profiles. These results establish that the heat transfer behavior of a flat-plate, zero-pressure-gradient, turbulent thermal boundary layer in water can be adequately predicted with an existing computer model based on mixing-length theory.
- Publication:
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7th Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, Volume 2
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989tsf.....2...20H
- Keywords:
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- Heat Measurement;
- Heat Transfer;
- Prediction Analysis Techniques;
- Thermal Boundary Layer;
- Turbulent Boundary Layer;
- Water Flow;
- Prandtl Number;
- Reynolds Number;
- Stanton Number;
- Temperature Gradients;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer