Turbulent Boundary Layer Heat Transfer Experiments: A Separate Effects Study on a Convexly Curved Wall

1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. W. Simon ◽  
R. J. Moffat

Measured heat transfer rates through turbulent and transitional boundary layers on an isothermal, convexly curved wall show Stanton numbers 20–50 percent below flat wall values. Recovery is slow on a flat wall downstream of the curve; after 60 cm, Stanton numbers were 15–20 percent below flat wall values. Five secondary effects were studied: (i) initial boundary layer thickness, (ii) free-stream velocity, (iii) free-stream acceleration, (iv) unheated starting length, and (v) transition. Regardless of the initial state, curvature without acceleration eventually forced the boundary layer into an asymptotic condition: StαReΔ2−1. Strong acceleration with curvature brought the exponent on ReΔ2 to −2.

1965 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Bu¨yu¨ktu¨r ◽  
J. Kestin

The paper presents solutions to the boundary-layer equations for heat-transfer rates into an accelerated and decelerated boundary layer in the presence of a linearly varying free-stream velocity. The equations are solved for the case of constant coefficients with frictional heat neglected, but over a range of Prandtl numbers.


1966 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. H. Back ◽  
A. B. Witte

Laminar boundary-layer heat transfer and shear-stress predictions from existing similarity solutions are extended in an approximate way to perfect gas flows with a large free-stream velocity gradient parameter β and variable density-viscosity product ρμ across the boundary layer resulting from a highly cooled wall. The dimensionless enthalpy gradient at the wall gw′, to which the heat flux is related, is found not to vary appreciably with β. Thus the application of similarity solutions on a local basis to predict heat transfer from accelerated flows to an arbitrary surface may be a reasonable approximation involving a minimum amount of calculation time. Unlike gw′, the dimensionless velocity gradient at the wall fw″, to which the shear stress is related, is strongly dependent on β.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. Blair

An experimental research program was conducted to determine the influence of free-stream turbulence on zero pressure gradient, fully turbulent boundary layer flow. Connective heat transfer coefficients and boundary layer mean velocity and temperature profile data were obtained for a constant free-stream velocity of 30 m/s and free-stream turbulence intensities ranging from approximately 1/4 to 7 percent. Free-stream multicomponent turbulence intensity, longitudinal integral scale, and spectral distributions were obtained for the full range of turbulence levels. The test results with 1/4 percent free-stream turbulence indicate that these data were in excellent agreement with classic two-dimensional, low free-stream turbulence, turbulent boundary layer correlations. For fully turbulent boundary layer flow, both the skin friction and heat transfer were found to be substantially increased (up to ∼ 20 percent) for the higher levels of free-stream turbulence. Detailed results of the experimental study are presented in the present paper (Part I). A comprehensive analysis is provided in a companion paper (Part II).


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.


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