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Thus it can be seen that the degree of superheat is much greater in liquid metals than in water for the same pressure and cavity size, because of their much higher values of (7sat)2. Also, for the same cavity size, pressure, and heat flux, the time required to build the thermal layer as well as its thickness will be much greater in liquid metals than in other liquids (see Sec. 2.2.2). 

The dimensionless microstructural parameter a. accounts for the penetration of the thermal layer into the catalytic one, caused by the progressive reaction of the soot, which is in contact with the catalyst. Results are presented for different values of a. (see appendix) in Fig. 21. The two layers remain separate for values of a. close to 1. As a decreases the degree of penetration between the layers... 

For a= 1, soot in the catalytic layer is oxidized fast leaving the soot in the thermal layer unreacted. This has been observed with some early catalytic filters. As a decreases the soot from the top layer replaces more rapidly the soot oxidized in the catalytic layer increasing the global oxidation rate. The corresponding soot layer thickness evolution is shown in Fig. 22. For values of a close to 1 (e.g. 0.9) the catalytic layer is totally depleted from soot at some instances, followed by sudden penetration events from the soot of the thermal layer. These events are clearly shown in the thickness evolution for oc = 0.9 in... 

The evolution of the dimensionless density profile across the soot layer is shown in Fig. 23. The initial gradual replenishment of the soot in the catalytic layer (at t = 140 s) is followed by sudden penetration events (t — 262 and 326 s) before the establishment of a steady state profile (at =531 and 778 s). Regarding the non-catalytic (thermal) layer only a gradual reduction of its thickness, accompanied by a very small reduction of its uniform density is observed. This simple microstructural model exhibits a rich dynamic behavior, however we have also established an experimental program to study the soot cake microstructure under reactive conditions. 

Fig. 126. Thermal layer model of combustion of solid composite propellant with ammonium nitrate, according to Chaiken [2] R—redox reaction flame zone (temperature 7f), u—gas velocity, S—thickness of the thermal layer, T —surface temperature of oxidizer particle, ro—radius of oxidizer particle.

In addition to the charge of activated charcoal A, a thermal layer T of broken rock is laid in the adsorber to absorb heat should the charcoal layer ignite. The air plus solvent passes through fan V, valve (7), layers T, A and valve (2). When the charcoal is saturated with solvent both valves are closed, the steam is introduced through valve (3), valve (4) is opened and the alcohol and ether are distilled off and passed to the condenser (5). The condensed solvent and water is collected in the lower section (6), and from there conveyed by pump (7) for rectification. After the solvent has been distilled the inflow of steam is stopped and hot air is passed through the adsorber, with valves (i) and (2) open. When the charcoal is dry the air heater is shut off (it is not shown in the figure) and the charge is cooled by means of cold water, after which the adsorber is ready for another adsorption cycle. 

The inner line in Figure 9 represents the corresponding thermal layer and shows the development of the thermal gradient. Again the material outside this layer remains at a constant temperature above the wall temperatures (i.e., 0o — 0w)- The thickness of the thermal layers ( >t) is given by... 

For foodstuffs under low shear conditions, the Prandtl number is large, i.e., the viscous layer is much thicker than the thermal layer. 

The heat transferred from the thermal layer to the wall can also be estimated and averaged over the mixing length. This gives... 

The thermal diffusion process, however, is not affected by the shear and so the same equations as before apply. Thus, the thickness of the thermal layer becomes closer to that of the viscous layer. 

Oligotrophic— Young lakes with the least amount of basin detritus and numbers of life forms. Turnover—The mixing and flip-flopping of thermal layers within a lake that results in nutrient mixing within the lake. 

The diffusion coefficient D(y) is a fimction of temperature, and it varies with position near the electrode according to the local temperature variation. However, as the thermal layer thickness is about five times larger than the diffusion layer thickness, the dif ion coefficient has in fact a variation that can be assumed to be negligible within the mass-transfer diffusion layer corresponding to the integration domain of equation (14.51). Thus, in the following development, D(y) = D, and dD/dy = 0. 

In addition, g(q2) is required to be finite except possibly at values of x corresponding to thermal wakes (for example, at the downstream stagnation point in the case of a sphere) for which the assumption of a thin thermal layer is no longer valid. 

Although the dependence of the thermal boundary-layer thickness on the independent parameters Re and Pr (or Pe) remains to be determined, we may anticipate that the magnitudes of Re and Pe will determine the relative dimensions of the two boundary layers. If Pe yp Re yp 1, both the momentum and thermal layers will be thin, but it seems likely that the thermal layer will be much the thinner of the two. Likewise, if Pe Pe 1, we can guess that the momentum boundary layer will be thinner than the thermal layer. In the analysis that follows in later sections of this chapter, we consider both of the asymptotic limits Pr —> oc (Pe yy Re y> D and Pr 0 (Re yy> Pe p> 1). We shall see that the relative dimensions of the thermal and momentum layers, previously anticipated on purely heuristic grounds, will play an important and natural role in the theory. 

However, the Blasius function f(rj) is available only as the numerical solution of the Blasius equation, and it is thus inconvenient to evaluate this formula for H(r] ). A simpler alternative is to numerically integrate the Blasius equation and the thermal energy equation (11-19) simultaneously. The function H(r]), obtained in this manner, is plotted in Fig. 11-2 for several different values of the Prandtl number, 0.01 < Pr < 100. As suggested earlier, it can be seen that the thermal boundary-layer thickness depends strongly on Pr. For Pr 1, the thermal layer is increasingly thin relative to the Blasius layer (recall that / ->. 99 for rj 4). The opposite is true for Pr <[Pg.773]

It is evident, on further examination, that the solution (11-57) cannot be uniformly valid within the thermal boundary layer because it cannot be made to satisfy the matching condition (11 7b) for any choice of the coefficient a(x). Hence (11-56) and the solution (11-57) are only valid in the part of the thermal layer that lies closest to the body surface, and, to obtain a(x), we must seek a second solution, valid in the outer part of the thermal boundary layer, with a(x) determined from matching. 

Physically, in the limit Pr -x 0, the width of the thermal layer is so much greater than the momentum layer that 9 does not vary at all across the momentum layer at the leading order of approximation. A sketch showing the multiscale structure of the thermal boundary region in this limit of Pr 1 is shown in Fig. 11-5. 

The problem for the first term in an asymptotic solution for the temperature distribution 9 in the outer part of the thermal layer is thus to solve (11 66) subject to the conditions (11 67a), (11 67c), and (11 7c). Again, we see that the geometry of the body enters implicitly through the function ue (x) only. As in the high-Pr limit, a general solution of (11 66) is possible even for an arbitrary functional form for ue (x ). Before we move forward to obtain this solution, however, a few comments are probably useful about the solution (11 69) for the innermost part of the boundary layer immediately adjacent to the body surface. 

Hence, to evaluate the heat flux at the body surface, it is sufficient to determine the solution (90/97) 7<<1 in the outer part of the thermal layer. It also follows from this discussion that... 

Fig. 7.1 Typical variation of temperature with altitude in the atmosphere and the resulting thermal layers. (The tropopause varies from c.18 km and a temperature of c— 80°C at the equator to c.8 km and c— 50°C at the poles.)...

Above the mesosphere a rather hot atmospheric layer can be found, the thermosphere. Since its chemical composition changes with altitude, this thermal layer is the same as the heterosphere, where air molecules (mainly 02) dissociate under the effect of absorbed external radiation. 

The relationship between the thicknesses of the two boundary layers at a given point along the plate depends on the dimensionless Prandtl number, defined as Cpfijk. When the Prandtl number is greater than unity, which is true for most liquids, the thermal layer is thinner than the hydrodynamic layer, as shown in Fig. 12.1a. The Prandtl number of a gas is usually close to 1.0 (0.69 for air, 1.06 for steam), and the two layers are about the same thickness. Only in heat transfer to liquid metals, which have very low Prandtl numbers, is the thermal layer much thicker than the hydrodynamic layer. 

The bubble is released from the surface at the departure time td. The released bubble carries with it a portion of the thermal boundary layer and the cycle is repeated. Figure 15.21 shows this bubble cycle, as well as typical variations of bubble diameter Db and wall temperature (Tw). Actually, Fig. 15.20d does not fully represent the true picture since the bubbles rapidly outgrow the thermal layer originally surrounding them. 

The smectic A phase is a liquid in two dimensions, i.e. in the layer planes, but behaves elastically as a solid in the remaining direction. However, true long-range order in this one-dimensional solid is suppressed by logarithmic growth of thermal layer fluctuations, an effect known as the Landau-Peierls instability [11,12 and 13]... 

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