LAMINAR HEAT TRANSFER IN DIFFUSER FLOW IN A COAXIAL CONICAL CHANNEL IN THE CASE OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS OF THE FIRST KIND
L. M. Ul'ev UDC 536.58:532.135 Consideration is given to the problem of convective heat transfer in slow diffuser flows in coaxial annular conical channels of constant width. A solution for thermal boundary conditions of the first kind is obtained by the method of separation of variables. The dependence of the temperature on the coordinates is represented in the form of a sum of two infinite series in confluent hypergeometric functions of the transverse coordinate that are multiplied by an exponential dependence on the longitudinal coordinate. The solution is of interest due to its being a superposition of two solutions, each having its own eigenfunctions and eigenvalues. Relations for evaluation of the initial thermal portion in the considered flows are also given. National Technical University (Kharkov Polytechnic Institute), Kharkov, Ukraine; email: ulm@kpi.kharkov.ua. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 21-26, January-February, 2001. Original article submitted March 16, 1999; revision submitted July 5, 2000. JEPTER7492020016 JEPTER749206