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Old   May 5, 2010, 10:14
Question Type of convection heat transfer boundary?
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what is type of convection boundary?
it is not fixedGradient because:
(T_s - T_inf) h = k dT/dx => T_s= (k/h)dT/dx + T_inf

So we can't use fixedGradient because of T_s (Surface temperature) is not a fixed value. it is needed for laplacianFoam and temperature field of a solid channel.
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