Laminar convective heat transfer in the entrance region between parallel flat plates
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Lundberg, D. D.
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1965-06
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Heat transfer rates for laminar, convective heat transfer in the entrance region between parallel plates were investigated. The hydrodynamic solution due to Bodia [2] was used in the solution of the energy equation in finite difference form on a digital computer. The thermal boundary conditions include; constant heat inputs constant wall temperature, one wall constant temperature and one wall insulated, and constant but different wall temperatures on the upper and lower walls. The approximate integral methods of Siegel and Sparrow [5], [7] are shown to produce results that are in close agreement with the solutions in the present analysis for the constant heat input and constant wall temperature cases. The scope of the finite difference solution is limited to a narrow range of Prandtl numbers near unity, due to the small grid sizes required for convergence.
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Technical Report
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Technical Report/Research Paper No. 54
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58 leaves: ill. ; 28 cm.