Mixed Convection Flow Past a Horizontal Plate: The Global Flow

Asymptotic analysis of the mixed convection flow past a horizontal plate near the trailing edge

The flow near the trailing edge of a horizontal heated plate which is aligned under a small angle of attack φ to the oncoming parallel flow with velocity U∞ in the limit of large Reynolds Re and large Grashof Gr = gβ∆TL3/ν2 number will be investigated (see figure 1). As usual β and ν denote the isobaric expansion coefficient and the kinematic viscosity, respectively. The difference between the ...

The interaction of the wake with the potential flow in mixed convection flow past a horizontal plate

The effect of weak buoyancy on the laminar flow of a fluid with kinematic viscosity ν, isobaric expansion coefficient β past a isothermally heated horizontal plate of length L and temperature T∞+∆T is aligned under a small angle of attack φ to the oncoming free stream (velocity U∞, temperature T∞) will be investigated in the distinguished limit of large Reynolds numbers Re with the “reduced” bu...

Stabilities of Parallel Flow and Horizontal Convection

In the first part, the stability of two-dimensional parallel flow is discussed. A more restrictively general stability criterion for inviscid parallel flow is obtained analytically. First, a sufficient criterion for stability is found as either −μ1 < U ′′ U−Us < 0 or 0 < U ′′ U−Us in the flow, where Us is the velocity at the inflection point, and μ1 is the eigenvalue of Poincaré’s problem. Seco...

Steady Mixed Convection Flow of Water at 4◦C Along A Non-Isothermal Vertical Moving Plate with Transverse Magnetic Field

Free Convection Flow past a Vertical Flat Plate Embedded in a Saturated Porous Medium

Abstract-A numerical solution for the free convection flow past a vertical semi-infinite flat plate embedded in a highly saturated porous medium by allowing the plate to have a non-uniform temperature or a non-uniform heat flux distributions has been developed. Both local heat transfer rate and excess surface temperature as a function of the distance along the plate are tabulated for a few case...