In this study, the local convective heat transfer from a rotating disk with a transverse air crossflow was evaluated using an infrared thermographic experimental setup. Solving the inverse conduction heat transfer problem allows the local convective heat transfer coefficient to be identified. We used the specification function method along with spatio-temporal regularization to develop a model of local convective heat transfer in order to take lateral conduction and 2D geometry into account. This model was tested using rotational Reynolds numbers (based on the cylinder diameter and the peripheral speed) between 0 and 17,200 and air crossflow Reynolds numbers between 0 and 39,600. In this paper, the distribution of the local heat transfer on the disk allows us to observe the combined effect of the rotation and air crossflow on heat exchanges. This coupling is able to be taken into account in a correlation of mean Nusselt number relative to both Reynolds numbers.
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