TOWARD CALCULATION OF FREE-CONVECTIVE MOTION OF LIQUID 
OVER A LINEAR HEAT SOURCE

O. G. Martynenko and V. N. Korovkin

UDC 536.25

The results of an analytical and numerical investigation 
of a laminar free-convective motion of liquid over a linear heat source 
are presented. The characteristic features of velocity and temperature 
field as functions of the density parameter and Prandtl number have 
been studied. A table of numerical solutions is given.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 4, 
pp. 69-73, July-August, 2007. Original article submitted 
October 2, 2006.