BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW OF DISSOCIATED GAS WITH ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION OF SURFACE CATALYCITY,

Abstract

The effect of arbitrarily distributed surface chemical activity on heat transfer has been studied and equations describing the diffusion rate of atoms to a surface in contact with a frozen boundary layer have been developed. A Volterra integral equation, is used and it can be solved either by a series method or by a numerical scheme. A detailed development was presented for surface catalytic recombination of atomic species of a disociated diatomic gas flowing over a flat plate. Two basic cases were included: the surface on the front portion as (1) a perfect catalyst or (2) a total noncatalyst. In the examples presented only the non-catalyst case is shown, since this was the only case for which all the methods of solution developed could be readily compared. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 21, 1963
Accession Number
AD0428903

Entities

People

  • P. M. Chung
  • S. W. Liu

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Catalysts
  • Diffusion
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Heat Transfer
  • Integral Equations
  • Integrals
  • Layers

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics