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Temperature Recovery Factor

fullflow.TemperatureRecoveryFactor

Compressible boundary-layer temperature recovery factor.

TemperatureRecoveryFactor computes the recovery factor used to estimate adiabatic wall temperature in compressible boundary-layer heat transfer. If no Prandtl number is provided, the recovery factor defaults to one.

Parameters

Name Type Description
namestr

Component name

networkNetwork

Network that owns this component

prandtl_numberState, optional

Prandtl number

turbulentbool, optional

Whether to use the turbulent boundary-layer exponent

Outputs

Name Type Description
recovery_factorState, optional

Temperature recovery factor