Mixed-convection laminar film condensation on a semi-infinite vertical plate

• Main Authors: Shu, Jian-Jun, Wilks, Graham
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Laminar Film Condensation; Semi-infinite Vertical Plate
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88216; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44614
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The flow of a uniform stream of pure saturated vapour past a cold, semi-infinite vertical plate is examined. The formulation incorporates the limits of both pure forcedconvection and pure body-force-convection laminar film condensation. Detailed asymptotic and exact numerical solutions are obtained and comparisons drawn with approximate methods and experimental results reported in the literature.