Laminar flow between two vertical parallel plates, with one of the plates uniformly heated and the other thermally insulated, has been studied theoretically for the case where gravitational buoyancy modifies an otherwise forced convection regime. Velocity and temperature fields for two conditions of flow—heated upward flow and cooled upward flow—have been derived. From these results heat transfer and pressure drop data have been calculated and similar tendencies to those which occur in uniformly heated vertical pipe flow were found.
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