The Effect of an Arbitrary Surface-temperature Variation Along a Flat Plate on the Convective Heat Transfer in an Incompressible Turbulent Boundary Layer

by Morris W. Rubesin

1951

An analysis was performed to determine the effects on the rates of convective heat transfer produced by arbitrary variations of the surface temperature with distance along a flat plate. The analysis was confined to the case of a low-speed turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate oriented parallel to the free-stream velocity. It was found that a continuously variable surface temperature has, in general, a smaller effect on the local convective heat transfer than does a surface-temperature discontinuity.

A Summary of Available Knowledge Concerning Skin Friction and Heat Transfer and Its Application to the Design of High-speed Missiles

by Morris W. Rubesin, Charles B. Rumsey, Steven A. Varga

1951

Abstract: A review is made of the existing information concerning boundary-layer characteristics: the temperature recovery, the skin-friction coefficients, the heat-transfer coefficients of both the laminar and turbulent boundary layers and the position of the transition from laminar to turbulent flow. Comparison is made between existing flight data and results computed by the boundary-layer momentum-integral method in a preliminary attempt to establish some rational way of approaching the design of a missile whose Mach number range and body geometry are markedly different from those of existing data.