Accession Number:

AD0265910

Title:

The Thermal Laminar Boundary Layer On A Rotating Sphere.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ADVISORY GROUP FOR AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PARIS (FRANCE)

Personal Author(s):

• SIEKMANN, J.

Report Date:

1960-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

1.0

Abstract:

A method is developed for determining the thermal boundary layer of a rotating sphere in an incompressible fluid having uniform flow. The method follows an idea due to N. Frossling, in which the temperature distribution is expressed as a power series expansion. Use is made of results previously obtained by N. E. Hoskin for the velocity distribution in the laminar boundary layer of a rotating sphere. Numerical results, obtained with an IBM 704 computer, are included. Author

Descriptors:

• *BOUNDARY LAYER
• *FLUID FLOW
• *HEAT TRANSFER
• FLUID MECHANICS
• HEAT OF FORMATION
• ROTATION
• SPHERES
• TURBULENCE

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE