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An experimental and analytical study of natural convection with appreciable thermal radiation effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

T. Audunson  and
B. Gebhart
T. Audunson
Affiliation:
Department of Thermal Engineering, Cornell University Present address: River and Harbour Laboratory at the Technical University of Norway, Trondhjem.
B. Gebhart
Affiliation:
Department of Thermal Engineering, Cornell University
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Abstract

An experimental and theoretical investigation has been carried out to determine the effect of thermal radiation on a natural convection boundary layer formed adjacent to a vertical flat surface with uniform heat flux input. In the experiment, the gases air, argon and ammonia were used as the fluid medium, thus permitting the observation of radiation effects in non-abosrbing and absorbing media. Experimental results were obtained for three different wall emittances at ambient pressures ranging from 2 to 8 atmospheres in air and argon and from 2 to 7 atmospheres in ammonia. An interferometer was used to measure the temperature distributions in the boundary layer and to evaluate the conductive (convective) heat flux from the surface into the fluid medium. The experimental temperature distributions and heat-transfer results obtained in ammonia gas are compared to the predictions of a perturbation analysis developed by the present writers. General agreement between theory and experiment is found. The presence of a radiating gas is seen to increase the convective heat transfer by as much as 40 % for the conditions of the present experiments. The results further indicate that the temperature distributions and wall-temperature gradients are strongly affected by both variations in the surface emittance and variations in gaseous emission and absorption. For non-absorbing gases, the experimental results are found to be in general agreement with existing theory. It is also shown that the experimental temperature distributions agree very well with theoretical predictions obtained by treating the convection and radiation processes as independent and superimposed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , 14 March 1972 , pp. 57 - 95
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© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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