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Convective Heat Transfer over a Flat Plate: Interactive Simulation

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Simulation: Boundary Layer

Try to answer these questions before determining the answer with the simulation. We suggest that you write down the reasons for your answers.

  1. Where does most of the heat transfer occur along the plate? At the leading edge of the plate or the trailing edge?
  2. When the Prandtl number is 0.6, what is thicker, the momentum boundary layer or the thermal boundary layer? How about when the Prandtl number is 3?