The energy equation for free convection heat transfer from a flat plate of length H at temperature T o suspended in a large body of fluid at temperature T 1 is This equation is nonlinear and is...

The energy equation for free convection heat transfer from a flat plate of length H at temperature T_o
suspended in a large body of fluid at temperature T₁
is

This equation is nonlinear and is difficult to solve. Usually dimensional analysis is applied to such equations. Given the following definitions

where
a
= k/pC_p, and B = pg(T_o-T₁), write the above equation in dimensionless form.