Radiation-Conduction Interaction on Mixed Convection Flow Along a Slender Vertical Cylinder

Abstract

Nomenclature = Rosseland mean absorption coefficient specific heat at constant pressure dimensionless stream function Grashof number acceleration because of gravity Nusselt number Prandtl number surface heat flux Planck number radial and axial coordinates temperature of the fluid temperature of the heated surface temperature of the ambient fluid velocities in the x and r directions coefficient of thermal diffusivity coefficient of cubical expansion scaled streamwise coordinate similarity variable scaled temperature surface temperature ratio to the ambient fluid coefficient of thermal conductivity curvature parameter v = kinematic viscosity £ = nondimensional axial coordinate p = density of the fluid cr = Stefan—Boltzmann constant crs = scattering coefficient