Abstract
Experimental results are presented for forced convection in the entrance region of a pipe; the results were obtained using both the boundary condition of uniform heat flux and that of uniform temperature. A significant difference which is attributable to the different boundary conditions was observed for Reynolds numbers below about 3 times 104, but at higher Reynolds numbers the difference rapidly diminishes. An approximate numerical solution for the early stages of boundary layer formation on the pipe walls gave similar differences between the two boundary conditions as were observed in the experiment.

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