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SynonymNatural Thermal ConvectionFree Thermal Convection


One of the 
Heat Transfer mechanisms originating from Natural Fluid Convection

See also


Physics / Thermodynamics / Heat Transfer / Thermal Convection

Forced Thermal Convection ]

Churchill, S.W. and Chu, H.H.S. (1975) Correlating Equations for Laminar and Turbulent Free Convection from a Vertical Plate. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 18, 1323-1329.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0017-9310(75)90243-4


Fujii, T., and H. Imura. “Natural Convection Heat Transfer from a Plate with Arbitrary Inclination,” Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 15, p. 755, 1972.


Holman, J. P.  Heat Transfer, 10th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.


References




Part 6 How to Calculate the Free Convection Coefficient.pdf

AME60634_F13_lecture25.pdf