STEADY CONJUGATE HEAT-TRANSFER IN TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOWS

The characteristics of steady conjugate heat transfer in turbulent channel flow which is uniformly heated over a finite length are numerically studied. The influences of wall thickness, wall-to-fluid conductivity ratio, and Prandtl number on the nondimensional heat flux and the evolution of temperature field are discussed in great detail. Particular attention is paid to study the wall conduction effects on low-Reynolds number turbulent forced convection heat transfer. The results show that the effects of wall conduction on turbulent forced convection channel flow are significant, especially for the cases with larger wall thickness and wall-to-fluid conductivity ratio. © 1990 Springer-Verlag.