Heat transport into a shear flow at high Peclet number

Abstract

Heat transport from a heated convex region on an otherwise insulating plane, into a fluid in shear flow along the plane, is considered. The asymptotic form of the temperature distribution is determined for large values of the Peclet number sL2/k where s is the shear rate of the flow, L is a typical dimension of the heated region and k is the thermal diffusivity of the fluid. From it the asymptotic form of the total heat transport is obtained. Although the shape of the region is arbitrary, the solution is constructed by using previous results for the special case of a heated strip with its edges normal to the flow.