Turbulent heat transfer with combined forced and natural convection along a vertical flat plate. Effect of Prandtl number
- Toyota College of Technology (JP)
- Toyohashi Univ. of Technology (JP)
The turbulent heat transfer of combined forced and natural convection along a vertical flat plate was investigated experimentally both with aiding and opposing flows of air. Local heat-transfer coefficients were measured in the vertical direction. The results show that the local Nusselt numbers for aiding flow become smaller than those for the forced and the natural convection, while the Nusselt numbers for the opposing flow are increased significantly. These results are compared with the previous results for water. It has been found that the nondimensional parameter Z(= Gr{sub x}*/Nu{sub x}Re{sub x}){sup 2.7}Pr{sup 0.6} can predict the behavior of heat transfer both for air and water. Furthermore, the natural, forced, and combined convection regions can be classified in terms of the above parameter.
- OSTI ID:
- 6427618
- Journal Information:
- Heat Transfer - Japanese Research; (USA), Vol. 19:2; ISSN 0096-0802
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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