Combined free and forced convection with two-dimensional solidification over a horizontal semi-infinite plate

✍ Scribed by M.L. Miller; L.M. Jiji

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 744 KB
• Volume: 288
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(69)00249-3

✦ Synopsis

The effects of natural convection on two-dimensional solid$cation of viscous flow over a horizontal, semi-infinite flat plate is considered. The continuity, momentum, and energy equations are solved by finite-difference techniques to determine the growth of the solid phase and the velocity and temperature distributions in the liquid and solid phases.

Results are presented for a range of the dimensionless parameter Nar/NRe 2.5 which illustrates the consequences of neglecting natural convection effects on the growth of the interface.