| In a practical heat transfer process, interaction between heat transfer by forced convection and conduction through the bodies immersed in the flow is shown to be very important. The modeling of a steady conjugate heat transfer process between an aerofoil shaped object and a forced stream is explored within this thesis.; The solution to the problem is composed of the following primary task areas, each requiring mathematical definition and one or more computer subroutines along with necessary interfacing architecture suitable to digital computations. These are: (1) Potential flow solution; (2) Boundary layer solution; (3) Heat transfer by conduction within a body; (4) An iterative procedure that combines solution of fluid flow and conduction analysis.; A two-dimensional incompressible potential flow past an aerofoil shaped object is analyzed using the surface vorticity boundary integral method. An implicit finite difference method was applied to obtain detailed boundary-layer characteristics which were provided as output through solving the boundary-layer equations. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
