Free convection along a vertical wall with uniform temperature.

This study has been performed as a complement to the graduate studies of Yonghui Jin at the National Institute of Occupational Health and the Royal Institute of Technology. It was initiated by the need to analyze free convective flows along vertical walls within the test chamber employed for experimental work with particle transport in turbulent buoyant plumes. We are grateful to professor Tor-Goran Malmstrom at the Royal Institute of Technology for pointing out this need. Free convective flows along vertical walls are, moreover, significant for indoor air movement and contaminant transport and therefore of general interests in occupational hygiene.