Determination of Nusselt number for

fluid flow over a flat plate subjected

to constant heat flux.

Akshay Khavare
M180462ME
 ASSUMPTIONS

• Steady flow
• Flow is laminar
• Two dimensional flow
• Incompressible flow
• Thermo physical properties are constant
Integral energy equation is given by

………Eqn 1

Velocity distribution is approximated as third polynomial

and is given by

……….Eqn 2
Temperature distribution is obtained as

…..eqn 3

Subjected to these conditions

Substituting equation of velocity and temperature
distribution in integral energy equation we get

where

Carrying out integration we get

Since ζ ≤ 1 we can neglect ζ3/14 , hence eqn reduces to

Which can be written as

Integrating above eqn we get

where C is the constant of integration and is found out
to be

then

since
Substituting we get

When x0=0

Local surface temperature is obtained from eqn 3 as

…………eqn 4
now

Substituting in eqn 4

Local heat transfer coefficient can be obtained as

Local nusselt number then becomes

When plate has no unheated starting section

Thank you