Papers Published

1. Douglass, R. W. and Shaughnessy, E. J. and Munson, B. R., SMALL REYNOLDS NUMBER CONVECTION IN ROTATING SPHERICAL ANNULI., Journal of Heat Transfer, Transactions ASME, vol. 101 no. 3 (1979), pp. 427 - 433 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/06)

   Abstract:
   A fourth order regular perturbation expansion in powers of the Reynolds number is used to investigate the steady convection of a stratified Boussinesq fluid in rotating spherical annuli. The results include the primary and secondary flow patterns temperature distributions, total heat flux, and torque characteristics emphasizing their dependence on a wide range of radius and angular velocity ratios. Maximum usable Reynolds numbers were found and usually were larger than 10. The optimum configuration for convective heat transfer is a radius ratio of 0. 35 and an angular velocity ratio of plus 1/3. This same configuration gives the largest torque as well.

   Keywords:
   FLOW OF FLUIDS - Spheres;MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - Perturbation Techniques;