Correlations for Laminar Forced Convection in Flow Over an Isothermal Flat Plate and in Developing and Fully Developed Flow in an Isothermal Tube

1973 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart W. Churchill ◽  
Hiroyuki Ozoe
Keyword(s):  
Flat Plate ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
Fully Developed Flow ◽  
Laminar Forced Convection

Correlations for Laminar Forced Convection with Uniform Heating in Flow over a Plate and in Developing and Fully Developed Flow in a Tube

1973 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. W. Churchill ◽  
H. Ozoe
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Flat Plate ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Plug Flow ◽  
Uniform Heating ◽  
Simple Correlation ◽  
Fully Developed Flow ◽  
Heated Tube ◽  
Developing Flow ◽  
Laminar Forced Convection

Asymptotic solutions for Pr → 0 and Pr → ∞ and numerical solutions for intermediate Pr were obtained for a uniformly heated flat plate. The method of Churchill and Usagi was utilized to construct a simple correlation for these values. The same method was used to develop simple correlations for plug flow and fully developed flow in a uniformly heated tube. These correlations were in turn combined to develop correlations for the available experimental data and computed values for developing flow in a uniformly heated tube. Derivations and test calculations in which convection normal to the wall was neglected reveal that this error is significant but insufficient to explain all of the discrepancies in the computed values.

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