Natural convection from an inclined flat plate
This thesis describes an experimental and theoretical study of natural convection heat transfer from a downwardfacing constant-heat-flux inclined flat plate in water. The theoretical investigation, which comprised an analysis of the integrated boundary layer equations for steady two-dimensional lam...
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| description | This thesis describes an experimental and theoretical study of natural convection heat transfer from a downwardfacing constant-heat-flux inclined flat plate in water.
The theoretical investigation, which comprised an analysis of the integrated boundary layer equations for steady two-dimensional laminar and turbulent flows, produced analytical solutions for a heated plate inclined at any angle of inclination.
Experiments, using two rigs, investigated heat transfer in the laminar, transition and turbulent regimes. The major outcome is a correlation for the local Nusselt Number over a range of modified Rayleigh Number from 10 6 to 10 15. In addition, boundary layer temperature and velocity profiles were measured using traversing probes and the flow outside the boundary layer was investigated using flow visualization techniques. |
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| institution | University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus |
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| language | English |
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| spelling | nottingham-117472025-02-28T11:15:23Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11747/ Natural convection from an inclined flat plate Warneford, Ian Paul This thesis describes an experimental and theoretical study of natural convection heat transfer from a downwardfacing constant-heat-flux inclined flat plate in water. The theoretical investigation, which comprised an analysis of the integrated boundary layer equations for steady two-dimensional laminar and turbulent flows, produced analytical solutions for a heated plate inclined at any angle of inclination. Experiments, using two rigs, investigated heat transfer in the laminar, transition and turbulent regimes. The major outcome is a correlation for the local Nusselt Number over a range of modified Rayleigh Number from 10 6 to 10 15. In addition, boundary layer temperature and velocity profiles were measured using traversing probes and the flow outside the boundary layer was investigated using flow visualization techniques. 1975 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11747/1/476527.pdf Warneford, Ian Paul (1975) Natural convection from an inclined flat plate. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Heat transmission turbulence laminar flow |
| spellingShingle | Heat transmission turbulence laminar flow Warneford, Ian Paul Natural convection from an inclined flat plate |
| title | Natural convection from an inclined flat plate |
| title_full | Natural convection from an inclined flat plate |
| title_fullStr | Natural convection from an inclined flat plate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Natural convection from an inclined flat plate |
| title_short | Natural convection from an inclined flat plate |
| title_sort | natural convection from an inclined flat plate |
| topic | Heat transmission turbulence laminar flow |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11747/ |