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Experimental study of natural convection heat transfer in a non‐newtonian fluid: Part II. Horizontal plate
Author(s) -
Sharma K. K.,
Adelman Maurice
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450470614
Subject(s) - natural convection , mechanics , heat transfer coefficient , non newtonian fluid , heat transfer , isothermal process , combined forced and natural convection , thermodynamics , convective heat transfer , convection , fluid dynamics , materials science , geology , physics
Abstract Experimental data on natural convection heat transfer to non‐Newtonian fluids from isothermal horizontal flat plates facing both up and down are reported. Emperical expressions for predicting the heat transfer coefficient for fluids as the flow behavior index is varied from 0.19 to 1.0 were developed. These are essentially similar to the vertical plate case and correlate the data with reasonable accuracy.