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For a convection flow parallel to a flat surface with no pressure gradient, a control volume is chosen having Δx, a height equal to the thickness of the thermal boundary laver, δ t and a unit depth, as shown in the following figure. Assuming the constant temperatures at the flat surface T s . and free flow surface T ∞