The k-ε model are performed to investigate numerically the steady, turbulent, incompressible flow and heat transfer converging radially between two stationary disks, which is as a continuously developing flow problem under the internal boundary layer approximations. The effect of relaminarization was considered. This present study has presented a good agreement with the laminar investigation of Murphy et al [1], where no heat transfer was considered. At large values of the dimensionless radii (>> 1) the velocity profile becomes parabolic and invariant and the friction factor approaches the classic value obtained for fully developed flow between infinite plates, 24/Re0, where Re0 is an overall Reynolds number based on the volumetric flow rate and the disk spacing and is independent of radius. At radii less than one a typical external boundary layer evolves close to the wall with an approximately uniform core region, the boundary layer thickness decreases from one-half the disk spacing to values proportional to the local radii as the flow accelerates and the friction factor approaches the constant 2.17/Re0. A local Nusselt number, Nu = 230(r/R)0.650(1 − r/R)−0.386, where r is radial coordinate and R the radius of the disk, was estimated. A large overall Reynolds number was imposed and a relaminarization of the flow was observed. It was suggested that these results can be applicable for laminar and turbulent flow under Re0 = 106.
Erratum to: To the article “MHD Flow and Heat Transfer in a Channel Bounded by a Shrinking Sheet and a Plate with a Porous Substrate” by D. S. Chauhan and R. Agrawal published in Vol. 84, No. 5, pp. 1034–1046, September, 2011,
