Natural convection over a vertical isothermal plate has been modeled with first-order momentum and thermal discontinuities at the wall. A local-nonsimilarity transformation has been applied and numerical solutions were obtained based on the three-equation model. The presence of nonequilibrium at the wall has been found to result in a nonsimilar boundary-layer problem. Nonsimilar velocity and temperature distributions within the boundary layer have been obtained. Results are presented which indicate the effects of nonequilibrium on wall slip velocity, temperature jump, wall shear stress, and boundary-layer thickness for both gaseous and liquid flows. Equations for predicting the drag and average Nusselt number have been formulated as an integral function of the nonequilibrium parameter. A reduction in heat transfer was predicted for more rarified gaseous flows with simultaneous momentum slip and thermal jump conditions. In liquids, without a thermal jump, heat transfer was found to increase relative to the respective no-slip value.
Nomenclatureheat transfer coefficient Kn = Knudsen number k = thermal conductivity L = characteristic length Nu = Nusselt number Pr = Prandtl number p = pressure T = temperature u = streamwise velocity v = normal velocity x = coordinate along the plate y = coordinate normal to the plate = thermal accommodation coefficient = volumetric thermal expansion coefficient = specific heat ratio of air = boundary-layer thickness = similarity variable = dimensionless temperature = mean free path = dynamic viscosity = kinematic viscosity = dimensionless nonsimilarity variable = shear stress = derivative of = derivative of = stream function Subscripts L = length of plate slip = slip condition w = wall boundary x = local streamwise position 1 = ambient conditions