Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Rotating Disk Systems, 2009 Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics Series, Vol. 45

The book is devoted to investigation of a series of problems of convective heat and mass transfer in rotating-disk systems. Such systems are widespread in scienti?c and engineering applications. As examples from the practical area, one can mention gas turbine and computer engineering, disk brakes of automobiles, rotating-disk air cleaners, systems of microclimate, extractors, dispensers of liquids, evaporators, c- cular saws, medical equipment, food process engineering, etc. Among the scienti?c applications, it is necessary to point out rotating-disk electrodes used for experim- tal determination of the diffusion coef?cient in electrolytes. The system consisting of a ?xed disk and a rotating cone that touches the disk by its vertex is widely used for measurement of the viscosity coef?cient of liquids. For time being, large volume of experimental and computational data on par- eters of ?uid ?ow, heat and mass transfer in different types of rotating-disk systems have been accumulated, and different theoretical approaches to their simulation have been developed. This obviously causes a need of systematization and generalization of these data in a book form.

General Characteristic of Rotating-Disk Systems.- Modelling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotating-Disk Systems.- Free Rotating Disk.- Unsteady Laminar Heat Transfer of a Free Rotating Disk.- External Flow Imposed over a Rotating Disk.- Outward Underswirled and Overswirled Radial Flow Between Parallel Co-rotating Disks.- Laminar Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Gap Between a Disk and a Cone that Touches the Disk with Its Apex.- Heat and Mass Transfer of a Free Rotating Disk for the Prandtl and Schmidt Numbers Larger than Unity.