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1Fire Research Division, Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, U.S.A.
Abstract:
A heat transfer problem involving a steady-state falling liquid film along a vertical wall with an imposed constant heat flux on the liquid film surface and an in-depth thermal radiation absorption in the film layer is analyzed. The liquid film is assumed to be normal to the incident radiative heat flux, and the heat flux is assumed to be parallel and unidirectional. Nondimensionalized governing equations are formulated and solved numerically. Sample calculations are provided. The effects of pertinent dimensionless parameters on the heat transfer process are demonstrated. The calculated results reveal that the in-depth thermal radiation absorption would play a key role in the heat transfer in the liquid film.
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