Turbulent heat fluxes were measured far downstream of a fine heating wire stretched spanwise across a curved, uniform shear flow. The turbulence was approximately homogeneous and the overheat small enough to be passive. Strong destabilizing and stabilizing curvature effects were produced by directing the shear toward the center of curvature and away from the center of curvature, respectively. The dimensionless turbulent shear stress was strongly affected by the flow curvature, but the dimensionless components of the turbulent heat flux were found to be relatively insensitive.

Issue Section:
Technical Briefs
Keywords:
Heat Transfer, Turbulence, Wakes
Topics:
Heat flux, Shear flow, Turbulence, Flow (Dynamics), Flux (Metallurgy), Heat, Heat transfer, Heating, Shear (Mechanics), Shear stress, Wakes, Wire
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