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Heat transfer in turbulent free convection around a horizontal nonisothermal cylinder

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The heat transfer of a horizontal cylinder in turbulent free convection and for a quadratic law of temperature variation on its surface is investigated numerically: 109≤Ra ≤1013, Pr=0.71.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 28–34, July, 1985.

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Matveev, Y.Y., Pustovalov, V.N. Heat transfer in turbulent free convection around a horizontal nonisothermal cylinder. Journal of Engineering Physics 49, 772–777 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276517

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