Unsteady free convection from a heated sphere at high Grashof number

DOI10.1007/BF00040179zbMath0544.76089OpenAlexW1982566272MaRDI QIDQ797429

N. E. Zubov

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00040179

zbMATH Keywords

collocation methodheat transfer coefficientGrashof numberinitial conditionBoussinesq fluidtransientChebychev polynomialsseries in powersvelocity componentsconstant Prandtl numberbuoyancy-driven unsteady laminar motiondifference solutionDimensionless boundary-layer coordinatesevolution of the solution towards a steady statesingularity at the upper polestagnation point representationsurface temperature of the spherethickness of the thermal boundary layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Related Items (2)

The heat transfer from a sphere in free convective flow ⋮ Transient boundary layer flow of viscous compressible fluid past a heated sphere with the effect of Mach number

Cites Work

• Collision phenomena in free-convective flow over a sphere
• Free convection from a heated sphere at large Grashof number
• A numerical method for calculating unsteady two-dimensional laminar boundary layers

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