Calculation of free-convective heat transfer on a vertical semiinfinite plate

Abstract

Self-similar problems of free-convective heat transfer on a vertical flat semiinfmite plate for high Prandtl numbers and three types of thermal boundary conditions (an adialxitic surface, a constant temperature, and a constant heat JIILX on the surface) are solved by the method t>f internal and exter-nal expansums on the basis of the equations of a laminar boundary layer in the Btmssinesq approxi-mation. Asymptotic relations are found for the main characteristics. The results tfbtained are comjxired with the data of other authors.