Convective heat transfer between a moving solid spherical particle and a viscous gas (Q2135103)

Paper investigates rigid sphere in stationary uniform flow of viscous gas. The characteristics of the medium (density, viscosity, etc.) and of the particle itself depend on temperature, which is known far from the particle. The problem is to find perturbed velocity field and temperature inside and outside the sphere. The study is inspired by experiments with particles, suspended in gas, being heated by a laser. The flow is described in low-Reynolds-number approximation. Heat exchange outside the particle is a combination of convection and heat conduction, and some heat sources act inside the sphere. The additional hypothesis that the heat conduction of a particle is much greater than the conduction of the gas makes it possible to separate the equations describing the thermodynamical and hydrodynamical parts of the process. After this separation, the problem is solved asymptotically, and the Reynolds number acts as the small parameter. As a result, all desired variables are found accurate within several constants depending on the type of hydrodynamical boundary conditions on the particle's surface (adhesion, slip and so on). Therefore, this general solution is valid for all types of forces that may act on a particle in a viscous gas.