The growth of the thermal boundary layer in laminar flow between parallel flat plates

✍ Scribed by Mercer, A. McD.

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 337 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-6994
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00411761

✦ Synopsis

The problem considered is that of the heat transfer occurring at the inlet to a parallel plate channel. Instead of separating variables, the energy equation is solved, after transformation, in the form of a power series. This method supplies information concerning the initial growth of the thermal boundary layer which is not obtainable by previous methods using eigen~ function expansions. A sufficient number of coefficients of the series is computed to allow the present solution to be joined to the asymptotic eigen-function solution, thus completing the treatment of the problem for all values of the longitudinal variable.