FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF THE ‘NEAR WALL ZONE’ OF CONFINED TURBULENT FLOWS: PART II

Finite element based solution techniques have been developed to replace the conventional ‘wall functions’ in the ‘near wall zone’ of general confined turbulent flows. The technique is validated by application to the turbulent flow and associated heat transfer within a square/rectangular cross‐sectioned duct rotating about an axis orthogonal to its longitudinal axis. The predicted results are compared with those from experimental measurements and excellent agreement is obtained when using the advocated methodology.