VMFL076

VMFL076
Forced Convection Over a Flat Plate

Overview

Reference	NASA Memorandum 02-27-1959, DETAILS OF EXACT LOW PRANDTL NUMBER BOUNDARY-LAYER SOLUTIONS FOR FORCED AND FOR FREE CONVECTION, By E. M. Sparrow and J. L. Gregg, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Solver	Ansys Fluent
Physics/Models	Laminar, Convection
Input File	`VMFL076_FLUENT.cas`
Project Files	Link to Project Files Download Page

Analysis of forced convection heat transfer with very low Prandtl numbers, typically encountered in liquid metal flows.

Figure 178: Flow Domain

Material Properties	Geometry	Boundary Conditions
Density= 900 kg/m3 Viscosity: 0.01 kg/m-s Specific Heat = 42.6 J/kg-K Thermal Conductivity = 142 W/m-K	Flat Plate Length = 1 m	Inlet Velocity = 1 m/s Inlet temperature = 300 K temperature of the plate = 350 K

Material Properties

Geometry

Boundary Conditions

Density= 900 kg/m3

Viscosity: 0.01 kg/m-s

Specific Heat = 42.6 J/kg-K

Thermal Conductivity = 142 W/m-K

Flat Plate Length = 1 m

Inlet Velocity = 1 m/s

Inlet temperature = 300 K

temperature of the plate = 350 K

Laminar steady flow. Pressure based coupled solver with pseudo-transient is used.

Figure 179: Comparison of Normalized Temperature with analytical results