Steady Laminar Free Convection Heat Transfer from a Sphere with Uniform Surface Heat Flux

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In this paper, a study is made of the steady laminar free convection boundary-layer equations on a sphere with uniform surface heat flux. To solve the boundary-layer equations, well-known Pohlhausen's simiarity solution for vertical plates is adopted just the same for spherical bodies by introducing twonondimensional parametric functions, so called azimuth functions. To determine the values of the azimuth functions which are expressed in series at the two points (the upper stagnation point and the equator), trial and error method is required. It is concluded that the heat transfer results are in good agreement with obtained from perturbation method and Von Karman-Pohlhausen method within the steady laminar free convection region for Pr=0.70.