Laminar natural convection from a horizontal plate and the influence of plate-edge extensions

DOI10.1017/S0022112083000646zbMath0516.76071MaRDI QIDQ3664695

Kei-Shun Lau, R. J. Goldstein

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Rayleigh numberNusselt numbertwo-dimensional domainSherwood numberheated strip1/5-power lawinward buoyancynaphthalene plates in airoutward buoyancyPrandtl number of 0.7 mass- transfer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Free convection beneath a heated horizontal plate in a rapidly rotating system ⋮ A singularity in thermal boundary-layer flow on a horizontal surface ⋮ Numerical study of the transition to chaos of a buoyant plume from a two-dimensional open cavity heated from below

Cites Work

• On the free convection from a horizontal plate
• Laminar natural convection boundary layers on horizontal circular discs
• Natural convection above unconfined horizontal surfaces

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