Heat transfer at a stagnation point when the free-stream temperature is suddenly increased

1964 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Lyman
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapas Ray Mahapatra ◽  
Sabyasachi Mondal ◽  
Dulal Pal

An analysis is made on the study of two-dimensional MHD (magnetohydrodynamic) boundary-layer stagnation-point flow of an electrically conducting power-law fluid over a stretching surface when the surface is stretched in its own plane with a velocity proportional to the distance from the stagnation-point in the presence of thermal radiation and suction/injection. The paper examines heat transfer in the stagnation-point flow of a power-law fluid except when the ratio of the free stream velocity and stretching velocity is equal to unity. The governing partial differential equations along with the boundary conditions are first brought into a dimensionless form and then the equations are solved by Runge-Kutta fourth-order scheme with shooting techniques. It is found that the temperature at a point decreases/increases with increase in the magnetic field when free stream velocity is greater/less than the stretching velocity. It is further observed that for a given value of the magnetic parameter M, the dimensionless rate of heat transfer at the surface and |θ′(0)| decreases/increases with increase in the power-law index n. Further, the temperature at a point in the fluid decreases with increase in the radiation parameter NR when free stream velocity is greater/less than the stretching velocity.


1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Sutera ◽  
P. F. Maeder ◽  
J. Kestin

Experiments have given evidence of strong sensitivity of the stagnation-point heat transfer on cylinders to small changes in the intensity of free-stream turbulence. A similar effect on local heat-transfer rates to flat plates has been measured, but only when a favourable pressure gradient is present. In this work it is theorized that vorticity amplification by stretching is a possible, and perhaps the dominant, underlying mechanism responsible for this sensitivity. A mathematical model is presented for a steady, basically plane stagnation flow into which is steadily transported disturbed unidirectional vorticity having the only orientation susceptible to stretching. The resulting velocity and temperature fields in the stagnation-point boundary layer are analysed assuming the fluid to be incompressible and to have constant properties. By means of iterative procedures and electronic analogue computation an approximate solution to the full Navier-Stokes equations is achieved which indicates that amplification by stretching of vorticity of sufficiently large scale can occur. Such vorticity, present in the oncoming flow with a small intensity, can appear near the boundary layer with an amplified intensity and induce substantial three-dimensional effects therein. It is found that the thermal boundary layer is much more sensitive to the induced effects than the velocity boundary layer. Computations indicate that a certain amount of distributed vorticity in the oncoming flow causes the shear stress at the wall to increase by 5%, while the heat transfer there is augmented by 26% in a fluid with a Prandtl number of 0.74. Preliminary computations reveal that the sensitivity of the thermal boundary layer increases with Prandtl number.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Camci ◽  
T. Arts

This study investigates the influence of incidence on convective heat transfer to highly curved surfaces of a film-cooled turbine rotor blade. A computational study of free-stream inviscid aerodynamics without cooling at various incidences is followed by well-documented measured heat transfer data sets. The heat transfer experiments are discussed for cases with and without film cooling, performed under realistic gas turbine flow conditions in the short-duration heat transfer facility of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. The precise location of the stagnation point and the iso-Mach number contours in the passage for each incidence (−10, 0, 10, +15 deg) are presented for a nominal exit Mach number of 0.94. The free-stream mass flow rate was kept constant for each experiment at different incidence levels. Three rows of compound angled discrete cooling holes are located near the leading edge in a showerhead configuration. Two rows of staggered discrete cooling holes are located on the suction side and a single row of cooling holes is located on the pressure side. The short-duration measurements of quantitative wall heat fluxes on nearly isothermal blade surfaces both in the presence and absence of coolant ejection are presented. The study indicated that the change of the position of the stagnation point strongly altered the aerodynamic behavior and convective heat transfer to the blade in approximately the first 30 percent of both the pressure side and the suction side in the presence and absence of film cooling. The immediate vicinity of the stagnation point was not significantly affected by changing incidence without cooling. Transitional behavior both on the suction surface and on the pressure surface was significantly influenced by the changes in approaching flow direction. Flow separation associated with incidence variations was also observed. Extremely low levels of the convective heat transfer coefficients were experienced near the regions where small separation bubbles are located.


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