TY  - EJOU
AU  - Khademi, Mohammad Hasan 
AU  - Mozafari, Abbas 

TI  - INTEGRAL ENERGY EQUATION MODEL FOR HEAT CONVECTION  TO TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER ON A FLAT PLATE
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2016
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - An integral energy equation model is used to calculate the heat transfer coefficient/Nusselt number, thermal boundary layer thickness and 
temperature distribution in the turbulent boundary layer for forced convection over a smooth flat plate. The proposed model is based on two 
polynomial temperature profiles in a thermal laminar sublayer as well as in a fully developed boundary layer and two integral energy equations. The 
performance of this new model is compared with the most commonly used semi-empirical correlations and the complex established models such as 
<i>k-ε</i>, <i>k-ω</i>, RSM, and a good agreement is achieved.
KW  - <i>Turbulent boundary layer; integral energy equation; heat transfer coefficient; flat plate.</i>

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.7.33