Heat and Mass Transfer in Anisotropic Bodies

This review is aimed, on the one hand, at attracting the researchers' attention to the problems associated with heat transfer in anisotropic bodies and, on the other hand, at analyzing the scanty experience in investigating the heat transfer in anisotropic bodies that has been accumulated over the last 30 years. We treat conjugate heat transfer between boundary layers and anisotropic bodies, and heat transfer under conditions of simultaneous reciprocal influence of anisotropic thermal conductivity and anisotropic filtration upon film cooling of bodies with anisotropic properties. New effects are revealed during simulation of conjugate heat transfer; the law of nonlinear filtration in anisotropic bodies is identified; and the effect of individual components and of the orientation of the principal axes of thermal conductivity and penetrability tensors on stationary temperature fields and on the distribution of components of the filtration rate is investigated. The results of analytical investigation of heat transfer in anisotropic bodies enables one, under conditions of lack of adequate information, to exactly simulate nonstationary temperature in simplest anisotropic bodies, which may be used as test results. A number of recommendations are formulated for implementation of heat shielding of anisotropic bodies under conditions of their aerogasdynamic heating.