On the graphical solution of heat-flow problems having convection boundary conditions

✍ Scribed by Hilbert Schenck Jr

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 653 KB
• Volume: 273
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(62)90645-2

✦ Synopsis

The use of orthogonal mapping procedures in heat-transfer analysis is often restricted to cases of isothermal and/or insulated boundaries. It is shown that a graphical construction called the "fictive isothermal surface" having certain welldefined properties will permit such mapping solutions to be made when fluid convection exists on the solid boundaries and the surface temperature varies from point to point. Rules for the construction of the fictive isothermal surface are given and a short catalogue of orthogonal maps derived from electrical analogue studies shows the form the fictive isothermal surface takes in systems of practical interest.