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Abstract
The laminar mixed convection in the entrance region of horizontal straight ducts of an annular cross section is studied by means of a generally applicable finite element procedure based on the parabolized simplification of the Navier-Stokes and energy equations and on the Boussinesq approximation of the buoyancy term. The procedure is validated through comparisons of computed results with available data from the literature. New results concern annuli with radius ratios equal to 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 subjected to the fundamental boundary condition of the second and the third kinds, for Prandtl numbers equal to 0.7 and 7, and different values of Grashof number.
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Address correspondence to Dr. Carlo Nonino, Dipartimento di Energetica e Macchine, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy.