Further Studies of the Analogy Between Fluid Friction and Heat Transfer in a Steady State, Two-Dimensional Turbulently Flowing Air Stream

Citation

Page, Franklin, Jr. (1950) Further Studies of the Analogy Between Fluid Friction and Heat Transfer in a Steady State, Two-Dimensional Turbulently Flowing Air Stream. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/a343-3x41. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07292025-204034656

Abstract

Velocity and temperature distributions have been measured in a steady-state, two-dimensional, turbulently flowing air stream. These measurements have been made both in an essentially isothermal stream and in one upon which a temperature gradient had been imposed. The heat flux and shear and the thermodynamic state of the fluid were determined at the same positions in the air stream.

From these data, the eddy conductivity and eddy viscosity distributions were calculated for fifteen different flow conditions.

The results of the eddy property calculations have been compared with eddy property distributions predicted by other investigators. The data have been correlated in a manner which appears to simplify prediction of eddy properties in other similar situat1ons.

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