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An investigation of heat transfer and friction coefficients for swirling flow in an annulus.
| Institution: | McGill University |
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| Department: | Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Degree: | Master of Engineering. |
| Year: | 1965 |
| Keywords: | Mechanical Engineering. |
| Record ID: | 1569368 |
| Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile117794.pdf |
Abstract
Free swirling flow in an annulus is defined for the purpose of this thesis, as a flow injected into one end of an annulus, with a tangential velocity component imposed upon the axial velocity of the fluid. The tangential component of velocity decays as the fluid flows along the annulus, under the action of friction forces. The swirl velocity of the fluid at a point is defined as the vector sum of the tangential and axial components of velocity at that point. The average of this velocity over an annulus cross section has been used in the heat transfer and friction coefficient correlations, which have been determined experimentally in this thesis. [...]
