| Abstract: | The problem of convection in a plane horizontal layer of incompressible fluid with rigid boundaries when the temperature is constant on the lower boundary and has a parabolic profile on the upper boundary can be reduced to solution of a system of time-dependent one-dimensional equations. An analytic solution of the problem is obtained directly at the extremum point. Together with the wellknown solutions which describe heat transfer for the linear temperature distribution on the boundaries, the results obtained make it possible to calculate the heat flux through a thin slit for an arbitrary given heating of a thin fluid layer between heat-conducting bodies. |
