HEAT-TRANSFER FROM A PLANAR SURFACE TO A FLUID IN LAMINAR-FLOW - AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY

Authors
PITTMAN JFT RICHARDSON JF SHARIF AO SHERRARD CP
Citation
Jft. Pittman et al., HEAT-TRANSFER FROM A PLANAR SURFACE TO A FLUID IN LAMINAR-FLOW - AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY, International journal of heat and mass transfer, 37, 1994, pp. 333-346
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Mechanics,"Engineering, Mechanical",Thermodynamics
Journal title
International journal of heat and mass transfer → ACNP
ISSN journal
00179310
Volume
37
Year of publication
1994
Supplement
1
Pages
333 - 346
Database
ISI
SICI code
0017-9310(1994)37:<333:HFAPST>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
An experimental study has been made of heat transfer from a flat plate with nominally uniform surface heat flux aligned parallel to laminar flows of Newtonian and shear thinning liquids, for a range of plate Re ynolds numbers (30-2000) and fluid Prandtl numbers (50-400). Finite el ement solutions of the coupled flow and conjugate heat transfer proble m have been obtained, using a recent form of the SUPG formulation for isoparametric biquadratic finite elements, extended to take account of variable physical properties. Close agreement with experimental plate surface temperatures provides confidence in both our experimental and numerical techniques.