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Vorticity amplification in stagnation-point flow and its effect on heat transfer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

S. P. Sutera
S. P. Sutera
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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Abstract

Recently a mathematical model was proposed (Sutera, Maeder & Kestin 1963) to demonstrate that vorticity amplification by stretching was an important mechanism underlying the sensitivity of stagnation-point heat transfer on cylinders to free-stream turbulence. According to the model, vorticity of a scale larger than a certain neutral scale and appropriately oriented can undergo amplification as it is convected towards the boundary layer. Such vorticity, present in the oncoming flow with small intensity, can reach the boundary layer with a greatly magnified intensity and induce substantial three-dimensional effects therein. The mean temperature profile was shown to be much more responsive to these effects than the mean velocity profile and very large increases in the wall-heat-transfer rate were calculated for Prandtl numbers 0·74 and 7·0.

In this work a second, more general, case is treated in which the approaching flow carries vorticity of scale 1·5 times the neutral. By means of iterative procedures applied on an electronic analogue computer, an approximate solution to the full Navier–Stokes equation is generated. The heat-transfer problem is solved simultaneously for Pr = 0·70, 7·0 and 100. It is found that a vorticity input which increases the wall-shear rate by less than 3% is capable of increasing the wall-heat-transfer rate by as much as 40%. The sensitivity of the thermal boundary layer depends on Prandtl number. In the three cases investigated it is greatest for Pr = 7·0 and least for Pr = 100.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , March 1965 , pp. 513 - 534
Copyright
© 1965 Cambridge University Press

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