Local heat transfer on a finite width surface with laminar boundary layer flow

The effect of a lateral discontinuity in the thermal boundary conditions in two dimensional laminar flow on a flat plate is investigated with numerical and analytical modeling. When the thermal and momentum boundary layers start at the same location, the resulting self-similar two dimensional bounda...

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Published inApplied thermal engineering Vol. 101; pp. 686 - 692
Main Authors Taliaferro, M.E., Angelino, M., Gori, F., Goldstein, R.J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 25.05.2016
Subjects
Electronic cooling
Finite lateral span
Forced convection
Laminar
Nusselt number
Forced convection
Nusselt number
Finite lateral span
Electronic cooling
Laminar
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Summary:The effect of a lateral discontinuity in the thermal boundary conditions in two dimensional laminar flow on a flat plate is investigated with numerical and analytical modeling. When the thermal and momentum boundary layers start at the same location, the resulting self-similar two dimensional boundary layer equations were solved numerically. For flow with an unheated starting length, three dimensional numerical simulations were required. For both the two and three dimensional thermal simulations, the Blasius solution for a two dimensional momentum boundary layer was assumed. It is found that all the Nusselt numbers collapse to a single curve when graphed as a function of a spanwise similarity variable. Simple correlations for the local Nusselt number on a rectangular flat plate are presented for a variety of boundary conditions.
ISSN:1359-4311
DOI:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.01.030