Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Mahulikar S. P. and Tso C. P. 2002A new classification for thermal development of fluid flow in a circular tube under laminar forced convectionProc. R. Soc. Lond. A.458669–682http://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2001.0881SectionRestricted accessResearch articleA new classification for thermal development of fluid flow in a circular tube under laminar forced convection S. P. Mahulikar S. P. Mahulikar Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, PO IIT Powai, Mumbai 400076, India Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and C. P. Tso C. P. Tso School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Republic of Singapore () Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author S. P. Mahulikar S. P. Mahulikar Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, PO IIT Powai, Mumbai 400076, India Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and C. P. Tso C. P. Tso School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Republic of Singapore () Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:08 March 2002https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2001.0881AbstractBy re–examining the general criterion for thermal development of fluid flow in a circular tube under laminar forced convection, it is possible to define a thermal development ratio, which leads to the identification of four different conditions of flow within the laminar regime. These different flow conditions subsequently lead to 12 possible ways of classifying changes in the thermal development of flow. 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