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Heat transfer from a hot film in reversing shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2006

T. J. Pedley
T. J. Pedley
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

The two-dimensional thermal boundary layer over a finite hot film embedded in a plane insulating wall, with a shear flow over it which reverses its direction, is analysed approximately using methods similar to those previously developed for viscous boundary layers (Pedley 1976). The heat transfer from the film is calculated both for uniformly decelerated and for oscillatory wall shear, and application is made to predict the response of hot-film anemometers actually used to measure oscillatory velocities in water and blood. The results predict that the velocity amplitude measured on the assumption of a quasi-steady response will depart from the actual amplitude at values of the frequency parameter St greater than about 0·3 (St = ΩX0/U0, where Ω = frequency, U0 = mean velocity, X0 = distance of hot film from the leading edge of the probe). This is in good agreement with experiment. So too is the shape of the predicted anemometer output as a function of time throughout a complete cycle, for cases when the response is not quasi-steady. However, there is a significant phase lead between the predicted and the experimental outputs. Various possible reasons for this are discussed; no firm conclusions are reached, but the most probable cause lies in the three-dimensionality of the velocity and temperature fields, since the experimental hot films are only about 2·5 times as broad as they are long, and are mounted on a cylinder not a flat plate.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , 7 December 1976 , pp. 513 - 534
Copyright
© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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