Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.28, No.10, 1144-1150, 2005
Effect of thermal asymmetry on heat transfer in a laminar annular flow
The effect of thermal asymmetry on heat transfer in a hydrodynamically developed annular flow has been investigated numerically. The surfaces confining the fluid space are kept at constant but different temperatures. Depending on the fluid inlet temperature, the thermal asymmetry can lead to a discontinuity of the Nusselt number on one surface. With the thermally developed flow the exact expressions for the Nusselt numbers have been obtained.