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Characterization of Thermal Transport in One-dimensional Solid Materials
Published on: January 26, 2014
Mixed thermal convection: fundamental issues and analysis of the planar case
Jacques Padet1, Renato M Cotta2, Emilia C Mladin3
1GRESPI - Thermomécanique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Reims, Reims, FR.
Abstract:
This paper aims to renew interest on mixed thermal convection research and to emphasize three issues that arise from the present analysis: (i) a clear definition of the reference temperature in the Boussinesq approximation; (ii) a practical delimitation of the three convective modes, which are the forced convection (FC), mixed convection (MC) and natural (or free) convection (NC); (iii) and, finally, a uniform description of the set FC/MC/NC in the similarity framework. The planar case, for which analytical solutions are available, allows a detailed illustration of the answers here advanced to the above issues.
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