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The temperature outside a heated plume

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

A.M. Watts
Affiliation:
University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland; and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Abstract

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A calculation is made of the temperature distribution outside the laminar part of the plume produced by a small source of heat in an infinite fluid. It is shown in particular that the temperature variation is not exponentially small outside the plume, as might be expected in such a problem of boundary layer type.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1971

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