Author : Robert H. Willie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (385 download)
Book Synopsis Fully Developed Laminar Natural Convection in a Vertical Parallel Plate Channel with Symmetric Uniform Wall Temperature by : Robert H. Willie
Download or read book Fully Developed Laminar Natural Convection in a Vertical Parallel Plate Channel with Symmetric Uniform Wall Temperature written by Robert H. Willie and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described in this thesis is an investigation of the fully developed natural convection heat transfer in a vertical channel formed by two infinitely wide parallel plates maintained at a uniform wall temperature. Closed-form solutions for the velocity and temperature profiles are developed along with local and averaged Nusselt numbers. The local Nusselt number based on bulk temperature is found to be 3.77. This result is an analog corresponding to 7.60 for fully developed laminar forced convection in a parallel plate channel with uniform wall temperature boundary condition. The local Nusselt number based on the ambient temperature is deduced as a function of flowwise location. Results are compared with existing numerical and experimental data to find good agreement.