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Problem 4: Entrance Flow

Consider an incompressible fluid at tex2html_wrap_inline165 entering a horizontal channel with uniform velocity as shown in the figure. If the channel wall is kept at tex2html_wrap_inline159 and the flow is laminar etimate

  1. the boundar layer thickness developed along the wall for both velocity and temperature profiles
  2. Nusselt number tex2html_wrap_inline169 and
  3. The length of the entrance region


Yousef Haik
Tue Sep 3 19:47:48 EDT 1996