As long as the temperature/heat flux doesn't vary within the cross-sectional area of your fin/rod/whatever then you don't need to make the math complicated.
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no slip
Do you know what the theory is for the handy equations? Is it Couette flow? or Poiseulle? They both assume a no slip condition for velocity as an approximation and make the other assumptions plus some more like laminar flow...
Last edited by meanmoe; 09-29-2010 at 06:17 PM.
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