Supplementary Funding for Women, Minority and Handicapped Engineering Research Assistants: Axisymmetric and Asymmetric Thermal Plume Development from a Heated Disk

对有限热源产生的热羽流进行了理论和实验研究。该研究旨在推进基础认识，但该研究在环境和电子冷却技术方面具有重要意义。在水平向上加热盘的情况下，初步研究表明热羽的发育和近盘流动的重要性。近盘区可以用附面层分析来表征，附面层分析与附面层以上夹带流的分析相联系。该研究分析预测了局部和平均盘和羽流分析。利用全息干涉法和热电偶探头获得的三维全场温度数据支持了理论研究。

A theoretical and experimental study of thermal plumes arising from finite heat sources is conducted. The research is aimed at advancing fundamental understanding, but the study has significant relevance in the environmental and electronic cooling technologies. In the case of a horizontal, upward-facing heated disk, the preliminary study indicates the importance of the developed thermal plume and the near-disk flow. The near-disk region can be characterized by a boundary layer analysis which connects with the analysis of the entrainment flow above the boundary layer. The study predicts analytically the local and averaged disk and plume analyses. The theoretical study is supported by three-dimensional full field temperature data obtained using holographic interferometry and thermocouple probes.