Local Variation of Heat and Mass Transfer for Flow Over a Cavity and on a Flat Plate

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Local Variation of Heat and Mass Transfer for Flow Over a Cavity and on a Flat Plate

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2017-09

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Boundary layer theory for flat plates is fundamental to our understanding of fluid flow and heat transfer. However, most of the experimental and analytical work for thermal boundary layers focus on streamwise effects. Lateral changes of heat and mass transfer near a lateral singularity in the surface boundary conditions have not been as extensively studied. Lateral heat transfer is studied using OpenFOAM to run numerical simulations for heated strips of varying width, fluids with varying thermal properties, separation lengths, and unheated starting lengths. Turbulent mass transfer is studied using the naphthalene sublimation technique for heated strips of varying depths, widths, and freestream velocities. The lateral edge effect is found to scale with the conduction thickness for both turbulent and laminar boundary layer flows. For laminar boundary layer flow the lateral edge effect extends approximately three conduction thicknesses into the flow, while for turbulent boundary layer flow it extends approximately ten conduction thicknesses into the flow. The results are useful for modeling heat transfer from discrete electronic components. In addition, the results should serve as useful benchmarks for numerical fluid models and computations where lateral transport is important.

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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2017. Major: Mechanical Engineering. Advisor: Richard Goldstein. 1 computer file (PDF); xli, 326 pages.

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Taliaferro, Matthew. (2017). Local Variation of Heat and Mass Transfer for Flow Over a Cavity and on a Flat Plate. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/191433.

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