Laminar mixed convection in two-dimensional far wakes above heated/cooled bodies: Model and experiments
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 1030.76054
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112001004463
author: Peter Ehrhard
published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
publication date: 2004-02-10T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76R05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76R10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76M10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76M45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76-05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 80A20
zbMATH DE Number: 1652550
zbMATH Keywords: mixed convection
zbMATH Keywords: boundary-layer approximation
zbMATH Keywords: farwake expansion
zbMATH Keywords: weak buoyant forces
zbMATH Keywords: two-parameter expansion
zbMATH Keywords: small parameters
zbMATH Keywords: Boussinesq approximation
zbMATH Keywords: Prandtl number
zbMATH Keywords: asymptotic model
zbMATH Keywords: vertical water channel
zbMATH Keywords: finite element code FIDAP
zbMATH Keywords: thermal wake
zbMATH Keywords: kinematic wake
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title: Laminar mixed convection in two-dimensional far wakes above heated/cooled bodies: Model and experiments
review text: The author develops an asymptotic model of mixed convection flow in boundary-layer approximation, and uses a far-wake expansion for weak buoyant forces. For a plane cylindrical or spherical geometry, the model is validated against both experiments in water and numerical simulations. Based on boundary-layer approximation, two-parameter expansion is constructed. The small parameters are: an inverse power of downstream coordinate, and the ratio of buoyancy to inertia forces. Thus, the model holds far downstream for weakly buoyant conditions. Under the Boussinesq approximation, the governing equations are coupled continuity, Navier-Stokes and energy equations with the corresponding boundary conditions. These equations and boundary conditions are written in non-dimensional form using dominant quantities for the forced flow around the body (cylinder).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIt is shown that this mixed convection problem is characterized by three dimensionless parameters: Reynolds number, Grashof number and Prandtl number. The author uses three principal means of investigation. (a) An asymptotic model is developed, which, based on boundary-layer theory, is valid for large Reynolds numbers. The model provides analytical expressions in self-similar form for flow and temperature fields, containing explicit parameter dependence, in conjunction with a system of ordinary differential equations for shape functions. To validate this asymptotic model, experiments and numerical simulations are made. (b) The experiments are performed in a vertical water channel at Prandtl number about 6. (c) The finite element code FIDAP 7.6 is used to compute flow and temperature fields on a mesh of about 25 000 nodes.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThere are many important results reported in this paper, but we mention only the following two: (i) for a heated wake buoyancy forces accelerate the fluid in the thermal wake, such that the vertical velocity deficit in the kinematic wake is reduced. For strong heating…
reviewed by: Ioan Pop
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1652550