scholarly journals An Influence of the Thickness of a Laminar Sublayer and Mixing Length Model on the Skin Friction and Heat Transfer in the Boundary Layer Flow

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz W. Polkowski

An influence of the thickness of the laminar sub-layer and mixing length profile on skin friction and heat transfer in the incompressible boundary layer is studied. Solution of the momentum and energy equations for different algebraic expressions for the mixing length is presented. Relationships between the specific forms of Reynolds analogy and boundary conditions (temperature or heat flux) as well as the limitations of Reynolds analogy are discussed.

1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Brundrett ◽  
W. B. Nicoll ◽  
A. B. Strong

The van Driest damped mixing length has been extended to account for the effects of mass transfer through a porous plate into a turbulent, two-dimensional incompressible boundary layer. The present mixing length is continuous from the wall through to the inner-law region of the flow, and although empirical, has been shown to predict wall shear stress and heat transfer data for a wide range of blowing rates.


1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 1253-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Daskalakis

We assess the effects of free convection on the boundary layer formed along a flat surface stretching vertically in a quiescent fluid. The flow is laminar and incompressible, the buoyancy forces conform to the Boussinesq approximation and the surface temperature is variable. The two-point boundary value problem of the coupled momentum and energy equations is solved using a simple and accurate relaxation method that provides the general nonsimilar solution to the flow. The effect of free-convection currents on velocity and temperature profiles, skin friction, and heat transfer is studied by varying the flow Grashof and Prandtl numbers. Zero shear stress and heat-transfer rate are predicted at some axial coordinate on a surface with decreasing wall temperature. Also the skin friction is markedly modified by the buoyancy while the heat transfer at the surface is correspondingly only moderately influenced.


1953 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-421
Author(s):  
S. Levy ◽  
R. A. Seban

Abstract Numerical solutions of the momentum and energy equations are presented for particular types of laminar boundary-layer flow analogous to the Hartree “wedge flows.” Variation of the viscosity and of the thermal conductivity is considered under the circumstances of no dissipation, favorable pressure gradient, and the product of conductivity and density a constant. The solution is based on approximate representations of the velocity and temperature profiles in the boundary layer and these are of such character that the labor of calculation is minimized and the accuracy of the results preserved. The differential equations are reduced to two algebraic equations which rapidly yield the skin friction and the heat transfer in terms of the wall to free-stream temperature ratio for the desired value of Prandtl number. Numerical results are given for a range of wedge flows with gases of Prandtl number 0.70 and 1.0. These results reveal that when the free-stream velocity is variable the temperature difference between the wall and the free stream exerts a substantial effect on the velocity distribution in the boundary layer and on the skin-friction coefficient. Alternatively, the heat-transfer coefficient is not affected radically. A calculation method is presented for the determination of the heat transfer and skin friction for a flow with an arbitrary variation of velocity over an isothermal surface. This method utilizes the results of the present analysis for the variable property wedge flows.


Author(s):  
Ibrahim Yakubu Seini ◽  
Daniel Oluwole Makinde

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the MHD boundary layer flow of viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting fluid near a stagnation-point on a vertical surface with slip. Design/methodology/approach – In the study, the temperature of the surface and the velocity of the external flow are assumed to vary linearly with the distance from the stagnation-point. The governing differential equations are transformed into systems of ordinary differential equations and solved numerically by a shooting method. Findings – The effects of various parameters on the heat transfer characteristics are discussed. Graphical results are presented for the velocity and temperature profiles whilst the skin-friction coefficient and the rate of heat transfers near the surface are presented. It is observed that the presence of the magnetic field increases the skin-friction coefficient and the rate of heat transfer near the surface towards the stagnation-point. Originality/value – The presence of magnetic field increases the skin-friction coefficient and the rate of heat transfer near the surface towards the stagnation-point.


Author(s):  
Luis M. Seguí ◽  
L. Y. M. Gicquel ◽  
F. Duchaine ◽  
J. de Laborderie

In the context of smooth surfaces where no industrial process modifies the flow and where no roughness affects the boundary layer flow, there are configurations today where the correct heat flux prediction is still unattained for certain operating points. This is the case of the LS89 configuration that has shown to be of great difficulty to accurately simulate the thermal fields for high Reynolds number flows even when performing wall-resolved Large Eddy Simulations (LES). The physics of the studied operating point (MUR235) are especially complex due to the interaction of a transitioning boundary layer, shock waves and free-stream turbulence injected at the inlet. In this paper, free-stream turbulent specifications are seen to be important towards the capture of the heat transfer profile on most regions of the blade. The boundary layer is found to be transitional when either artificially raising the level of turbulence at the inlet or by using a highly refined mesh that induces the generation of turbulent spots that increase the heat transfer. The important refinement done improves the heat flux predictions to the point it is approaching the experimental data.


1961 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva M. Winkler

Naturally turbulent boundary layers on a cooled flat plate have been investigated at several distances from the leading edge of the plate at a Mach number of 5.2 for three rates of steady-state heat transfer to the surface. Measurements of Pitot and static pressures and of total and wall temperatures made it possible to compute velocity profiles, static-temperature profiles, and boundary-layer parameters without resorting to assumptions. The data demonstrate that the Reynolds analogy between skin friction and heat transfer is valid for all conditions of the present experiments. With increasing rate of heat transfer to the surface, the skin-friction coefficient was found to decrease, a phenomenon opposite to that predicted by theories and empirical relations. On the basis of the present data and other published results of compressible and incompressible turbulent boundary-layer skin friction, a simple relation was devised which describes closely the variation of the skin-friction coefficient with Mach number, heat-transfer rate, and momentum-thickness Reynolds number.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wubshet Ibrahim ◽  
B. Shanker

The boundary-layer flow and heat transfer over a non-isothermal stretching sheet in a nanofluid with the effect of magnetic field and thermal radiation have been investigated. The transport equations used for the analysis include the effect of Brownian motion and thermophoresis. The solution for the temperature and nanoparticle concentration depends on six parameters, viz., thermal radiation parameter R, Prandtl number Pr, Lewis number Le, Brownian motion Nb, and the thermophoresis parameter Nt. Similarity transformation is used to convert the governing nonlinear boundary-layer equations into coupled higher order nonlinear ordinary differential equations. These equations were numerically solved using a fourth-order Runge–Kutta method with shooting technique. The analysis has been carried out for two different cases, namely prescribed surface temperature (PST) and prescribed heat flux (PHF) to see the effects of governing parameters for various physical conditions. Numerical results are obtained for distribution of velocity, temperature and concentration, for both cases i.e., prescribed surface temperature and prescribed heat flux, as well as local Nusselt number and Sherwood number. The results indicate that the local Nusselt number decreases with an increase in both Brownian motion parameter Nb and thermophoresis parameter Nt. However, the local Sherwood number increases with an increase in both thermophoresis parameter Nt and Lewis number Le. Besides, it is found that the surface temperature increases with an increase in the Lewis number Le for prescribed heat flux case. A comparison with the previous studies available in the literature has been done and we found an excellent agreement with it.


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