Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Master's Theses Graduate School 2015 An Analytic Solution of the Thermal Boundary Layer at the Leading Edge of a Heated Semi-Infinite Flat Plate under Forced Uniform Flow Robert Jessee Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. AN ANALYTIC SOLUTION OF THE THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER AT THE LEADING EDGE OF A HEATED SEMI-INFINITE FLAT PLATE UNDER FORCED UNIFORM FLOW A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering by Robert Lawrence Jessee B.S., Clemson University, 2008 December 2015 Acknowledgements I would like to first acknowledge and express my gratitude for my friend and colleague, Mr. Sai Sashankh Rao, who was the first to develop a solution to the fluid portion of this problem.