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COEFFICIENTS OF HEAT TRANSFER BY NATURAL CONVECTION

Thomas, P.H., 1954. COEFFICIENTS OF HEAT TRANSFER BY NATURAL CONVECTION. Fire Research Notes 127


ABSTRACT

This note is a brief introduction to the discussion of free convection given in the standard text books. The differences between spheres, disks and long cylinders at small Grashof numbers, and the limitations on the use in transient conditions of data valid for quasi-stationary conditions are discussed.



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