An analysis on entrance region effect of the laminar radial flow between two parallel disks

In this paper, B. B. Golubef method^[1] is used for calculating the radial diffuse flow between two parallel disks for the first step. The momentum integral equation together with the energy integral equation is derived from the boundary layer momentum equation, and the expression of secondary approximation explicit function in which the channel length of entrance region varies with the boundary layer thickness can be obtained by using Picard iteration[2] in the solution of the energy integral equation. Therefore, this has made it possible to analyze directly and analytically the coefficients of the entrance region effect. In particular, when the outer diameter of disk is smaller than the entrance region length, the advantage of this method can be prominently manifest.Only because the energy integral equation is employed, the terms in the pressure loss coefficient can be independently derived theoretically. The computable value of the pressure loss coefficient presented in this paper is nearer to the testing value than that in ref. [3] when the entrance correction Reynolds number Re<100. Therefore the results in this paper within Re<100 are both reliable and simple.