AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER BY LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION ON A UNIFORMLY HEATED VERTICAL FLAT PLATE

Asish Mitra

Abstract: An experimental investigation on natural convection heat transfer under steady state condition has been conducted with water on a vertical flat plate of uniform heat flux. The plate was an electrically heated (uniform heat flux) flat plate. Water (100%) was used as fluid. The plate temperature excess, (?T)x increases vertically upwards as x 0.2 and is proportional to qs 0.8. The value of the coefficient of the well-established heat transfer correlation has been evaluated and its value shows a good agreement with the theoretical predictions and published data. Experimental data have been correlated as under:

Keywords: Heat Transfer; Natural Convection; Vertical Plate; Uniform Heat Flux; Water

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0603012