LAMINAR CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN THE ENTRANCE REGION BETWEEN PARALLEL FLAT PLATES.

Abstract

Heat transfer rat5s for laminar, convective heat transfer in the entrance region between parallel plates were investigated. A hydrodynamic solution was used in the solution of the energy equation in finite difference form on a digital computer. The thermal boundary conditions include: constant heat input, constant wall temperature, one wall constant temperature and one wall insulated, and constant but different wall temperatures on the upper and lower walls. Approximate integral methods 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. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0619031

Entities

People

  • D. D. Lundberg
  • Jennifer A. Miller

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Boundaries
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Convergence
  • Digital Computers
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Heat Transfer
  • Integrals
  • Prandtl Number

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics