Laminar Flow Forced Convection in Ducts is a sourcebook for compact heat exchanger analytical data. This book describes the analytical solutions for laminar fluid flow and forced convection heat transfer in circular and noncircular pipes, including applicable differential equations and boundary conditions involving velocity and temperature problems of fluid flow. The book also discusses fluid flow—how much power is required to pump fluids through the heat exchanger, as well as the heat transfer—the determination of q" distribution, and the temperature of fluid and walls. The text also analyzes the coolant or heat transfer fluid flows in a nuclear power reactor composed of a bundle of circular section fuel rods located inside a round tube. R.A. Axford addresses fluid flow and heat transfers results for the rod bundle geometry in "Heat Transfer in Rod Bundles." The book also provides an overview and guidelines that can be used for the designer and the applied mathematician. This book is suitable for engineers working in electronics, aerospace, instrumentation, and biomechanics that use cooling or heating exchanges or solar collection systems.

This thesis describes an experimental investigation of laminar flow heat transfer to water in straight and curved sections of a square duct, heated on one side only. Heat transfer coefficients in the entrance and fully developed regions of the straight section are presented for a range of Grashof to Reynolds number ratios. For fully developed flow, heat transfer coefficients 4.5 times greater than pure forced convection coefficients were obtained. Heat transfer coefficients in the curved section, normalized with straight section data, are given as a function of an empirical parameter, dependent on Grashof (based on centrifugal acceleration) and Reynolds numbers. (Author).

Theoretical laminar flow solutions for heat transfer and flow friction are of considerable importance in the development of new types of compact heat exchangers. In this report these solutions are compiled, using a common format,