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Fagbenle, R.O. (1973) On Merk’s Method of Analyzing Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer in Laminar Boundary Layers. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, Urbana.

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• TITLE: Forced Convection Thermal Boundary Layer Transfer for Non-Isothermal Surfaces Using the Modified Merk Series

  AUTHORS: Ayodeji Falana, Richard Olayiwola Fagbenle

  KEYWORDS: Boundary Layer, Non-Isothermal, Similarity Solutions, Power-Law

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics, Vol.4 No.2, June 27, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The Chao and Fagbenle’s modification of Merk series has been employed for the analysis of forced convection laminar thermal boundary layer transfer for non-isothermal surfaces. In addition to the Prandtl number (Pr) and the pressure gradient (∧), a third parameter (temperature parameter, γ) was introduced in the analysis. Solutions of the resulting universal functions for the thermal boundary layer have been obtained for Pr of 0.70, 1.0 and 10.0 and for a range of ∧. The results obtained for the similarity equations agreed with published results within very close limits for all the ∧’s investigated.