Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 37 / Number 2 / August 1969 / Pages 216-223
Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20680
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An analysis is made to determine the heat transfer characteristics for steady, fully developed flow of a heat-generating fluid between isothermal parallel plates. Axial conduction is not neglected and the velocity profile is assumed to be nonuniform in the transverse direction. The results indicate that axial conduction is a low Peclet-number thermal-entrance region effect and increases or decreases Nusselt numbers depending on the heat-source strength and the boundary conditions.