TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing flow and heat transfer to power law fluids in square, trapezoidal and pentagonal ducts
AU - Lawal, A.
AU - Mujumdar, A. S.
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - A computational method has been developed successfully to predict the developing flow and heat transfer to a power law fluid flowing in square, trapezoidal and pentagonal cross-section straight ducts. The governing three-dimensional equations are parabolized axially. An orthogonal body-fitted coordinate system is employed to handle any arbitrary simply-connected channel geometry. The transformed equations are discretized and solved by line SOR technique. The computer code is capable of handling various boundary conditions and incorporates variable fluid properties and viscous dissipation. Typical results are presented to demonstrate the applicability of the code developed.
AB - A computational method has been developed successfully to predict the developing flow and heat transfer to a power law fluid flowing in square, trapezoidal and pentagonal cross-section straight ducts. The governing three-dimensional equations are parabolized axially. An orthogonal body-fitted coordinate system is employed to handle any arbitrary simply-connected channel geometry. The transformed equations are discretized and solved by line SOR technique. The computer code is capable of handling various boundary conditions and incorporates variable fluid properties and viscous dissipation. Typical results are presented to demonstrate the applicability of the code developed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0735-1933(85)90004-1
DO - 10.1016/0735-1933(85)90004-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0021779743
SN - 0735-1933
VL - 12
SP - 23
EP - 31
JO - International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
JF - International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
IS - 1
ER -