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

热羽流的理论和实验研究 有限热源进行。 该研究旨在推进 基本的理解，但这项研究具有重大意义， 环境和电子冷却技术。 的情况下 一个水平的，面向上的加热盘，初步研究 表明了发展的热羽流的重要性， 近盘流 近盘区的特征在于 边界层分析，它连接到分析的 边界层上方的卷吸流。 该研究预测 局部和平均磁盘和羽流分析。 的 理论研究得到了三维全场的支持 使用全息干涉测量法获得的温度数据， 热电偶探头

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.