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The effect of buoyancy force on laminar boundary layer in two dimensional flow and heat transfer along a semi-infinite vertical surface, when the velocity of the on-coming stream oscillates in magnitude about a steady mean, is analysed. Two separate solutions valid for low and high frequency ranges are developed. It is found that for low frequency oscillations the phase angles of oscillatory components of skin friction and the rate of heat transfer increase as the Grashof number increases. For very high frequencies, the velocity field is of shear-wave type unaffected by the mean flow; the phase lead in the skin friction is, then, π/4 and the rate of heat transfer fluctuation indicates a phase lag of π/2 over that of the free stream oscillations.
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Singh, P., Sinha, S.B. Fluctuating boundary layers in combined convection flows along a vertical surface. Czech J Phys 30, 790–804 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01599913
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