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Exact flow/heat solutions for the non-axisymmetric flow over a rotating disk

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The present note is concerned with the exact non-axisymmetric solutions for the flow over a rotating disk. The governing non-axisymmetric flow equations of motion generate exact flow solutions from which analytic expressions for the vorticity, shear stresses, flow/thermal layer thicknesses and rate of heat transfer are obtained. The effects of Brinkman number, heat generation/absorption as well as thermal radiation on the temperature field can be better pursued from the extracted formulae.

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Turkyilmazoglu, M. Exact flow/heat solutions for the non-axisymmetric flow over a rotating disk. Acta Mech 223, 161–166 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-011-0553-4

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