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The thermal boundary layer on a non-isothermal surface with non-uniform free stream velocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

E. M. Sparrow
Affiliation:
N.A.C.A. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio

Abstract

A formally exact solution for the thermal boundary layer on a non-isothermal surface subjected to non-uniform free stream velocity is presented in the form of a series. It is demonstrated that the solution can be recast in terms of universal functions, which are independent of the wall temperature data of particular problems, and which depend only on a single parameter characterizing the variation of the free stream velocity.

Type
Research Article
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© Cambridge University Press

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