Laminar film condensation heat transfer on a vertical, non-isothermal, semi-infinite plate

This paper gives similarity transformations for laminar film condensation on a vertical flat plate with variable temperature distribution and finds analytical solutions for arbitrary Prandtl numbers and condensation rates. The work contrasts with Sparrow and Gregg's assertion that wall temperature variation does not permit similarity solutions. To resolve the long debatable issue regarding heat transfer of non-isothermal case, some useful formulas are obtained, including significant correlations for varying Prandtl numbers. Results are compared with the available experimental data

Heat transfer in the flow of a cold, axisymmetric vertical liquid jet against a hot, horizontal plate

The paper considers heat transfer characteristics of thin film flow over a hot horizontal flat plate resulting from a cold vertical jet of liquid falling onto the surface. A numerical solution of high accuracy is obtained for large Reynolds numbers using the modified Keller box method. For the flat plate, solutions for axisymmetric jets are obtained. In a parallel approximation theory an advanced polynomial approximation for the velocity and temperature distribution is employed and results are good agreement with those obtained using a simple Pohlhausen polynomial and the numerical solutions