(1) Honeywell Inc., 2345 Walnut St., 55112 St. Paul, Minnesota;(2) Argonne National Laboratory, 60440 Argonne, Illinois, USA;(3) School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 47907 Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Abstract:
An experimental study is presented of the transient and steady-state natural convection heat transfer in mercury following a step change in uniform heat flux of the vertical rectangular channel wall. The fluid was initially stagnant and at a uniform temperature. Temperature distributions were measured during the transient and at steady-state conditions. Heat transfer characteristics of the system were determined from these measurements.