Combined free and forced convection flow of an elasto-viscous liquid through a porous channel

The combined effect of free and forced convection on the flow of an elasto-viscous liquid between two porous parallel plates with suction and injection at the walls has been studied. The effect of dimensionless numbers such as the elastic number Rc, the cross flow Reynolds number R, the Grashof number G, the Prandtl number Pr, the Brinkman number K and the wall temperature parameter N on the velocity and temperature fields, shear stresses and the rates of heat transfer at the walls have been studied.     

Turbulent natural convection flow and heat transfer in an inclined square enclosure

Numerical analysis was performed for the two-dimensional turbulent natural convection in an inclined enclosure. The enclosure has two walls which one is heated and the other cooled, and has the other two walls of the linear temperature distributions. The inclined angle is equal to zero when the wall of linear temperature was horizontal and increases counter-clockwise. The mean continuity, mean momentum and mean energy equations have been obtained by using the conventional time-averaging procesure. The turbulent model has been applied ak-ε two equation model of turbulence similar to the one proposed by the Launder and Spalding. Numerical results were studied for a series of inclined angle, ranging from 0° to 60° and for a Grashof number range of 6×10⁶∼10⁸. The average heat transfer rate on hot wall is shown maximum value at 30° regardless of Grashof number taken here. When Gr≥5×10⁷ and θ≥45°, the flow region of whole enclosure became a significant turbulence. This paper was presented at the International Symposium on the Refined Flow Modeling and Turbulent Measurement. Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A., 1985     

缩放管内脉动流动对流换热的数值模拟研究

通过数值模拟计算,研究在不同脉动频率、脉动振幅下的管内流体脉动对缩放管的传热和阻力的影响。研究结果表明:管内流体脉动能够强化缩放管的传热效果,相比稳态时,传热被强化了约为16%;管内流体脉动在一定条件下,也会增大缩放管的沿程阻力。     

Effect of thermal radiation on convection heat transfer in cooling channel of photovoltaic thermal system

The effect of thermal radiation on convection heat transfer in flat-box type cooling channel of photovoltaic thermal system with tilt angle of 30 degree was studied by 3D numerical simulation under constant heat flux boundary condition. The temperature contours and velocity fields of fluid near the outlet were obtained. The variations of wall temperature and convection Nusselt number along flow direction for all the separate walls composing the cooling channel were compared and analyzed. The results show that due to thermal radiation, the deflection of the maximum velocity region to heated top wall, together with the asymmetry of temperature field is weakened. For natural convection, radiation promotes the formation of multi-vortices. For mixed convection, heat transfer on all the cooling channel walls is enhanced under the condition of lower heat flux while heat transfer on heated top wall is deteriorated when the heat flux is relative high. Also, pressure re-rising is promoted by thermal radiation.     

Lie group analysis of radiation natural convection heat transfer past an inclined porous surface

Natural convection heat transfer fluid flow past an inclined plate embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium is investigated by Lie group analysis. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations by the scaling symmetries. From numerical results, it is found that the thermal and momentum boundary layer thicknesses are increased as the radiation parameter is increased. Also, it is observed that the velocity is increased and the temperature is decreased for increasing the buoyancy parameter and the porosity parameter.     

Entropy analysis of flow and heat transfer caused by a moving plate with thermal radiation

This study examines the effects of thermal radiation on entropy generation in flow and heat transfer caused by a moving plate. The equations that govern the flow and heat transfer phenomenon are solved numerically. Velocity and temperature profiles are obtained for the parameters involved in the problem. The expressions for the entropy generation number and the Bejan number are obtained based on the profiles. Graphs for velocity, temperature, the entropy generation number, and the Bejan number are plotted and discussed qualitatively.     

Laminar forced convective heat transfer to near-critical water in a tube

Numerical modeling is carried out to investigate forced convective heat transfer to nearcritical water in developing laminar flow through a circular tube. Due to large variations of thermo-physical properties such as density, specific heat, viscosity, and thermal conductivity near thermodynamic critical point, heat transfer characteristics show quite different behavior compared with pure forced convection. With flow acceleration along the tube unusual behavior of heat transfer coefficient and friction factor occurs when the fluid enthalpy passes through pseudocritical point of pressure in the tube. There is also a transition behavior from liquid-like phase to gas-like phase in the developing region. Numerical results with constant heat flux boundary conditions are obtained for reduced pressures from 1.09 to 1.99. Graphical results for velocity, temperature, and heat transfer coefficient with Stanton number are presented and analyzed.     

Forced convection heat transfer of steam in a square ribbed channel

An experimental study of heat transfer characteristics of steam in a square channel (simulating a gas turbine blade cooling passage) with two opposite surfaces roughened by 60 deg parallel ribs was performed. The ranges of key governing parameters were: Reynolds numbers (Re) based on the channel hydraulic diameter (30000–140000), entry gauge pressure (0.2Mpa–0.5Mpa), heat flux of heat transfer surface area (5kWm⁻²–20kWm⁻²), and steam superheat (13°C–51°C). The test channel length was 1000mm, while the rib spacing (p/e) was 10, and the ratio of rib height (e) to hydraulic diameter (D) was 0.048. The test channel was heated by passing current through stainless steel walls instrumented with thermocouples. The local heat transfer coefficients on the ribbed wall from the channel entrance to the fully developed regions were measured. The semi-empirical correlation was fitted out by using the average Nusselt numbers in the fully developed region to cover the range of Reynolds number. The correlation can be used in the design of new generation of gas turbine blade cooled by steam.     

Measuring heat transfer coefficient in convection reflow ovens

In this paper, the evaluation of a measurement method is discussed which can determine the heat transfer coefficient in convection reflow ovens. Nowadays the reflow ovens apply forced convection heating with nozzle-matrix blower system. In these ovens the heat transfer coefficients of the heater gas streams determine mainly the efficiency of heating. A method is presented which has two steps: in the first step, the heat transfer coefficient of the heater gas streams is studied above the assembly in function of height; in the second step, the heating efficiency of the nozzle-lines is compared as a distribution of the heat transfer coefficient in the oven. The heat transfer coefficients are calculated from the heat equation of the reflow oven. It is also presented with the distributions of the heat transfer coefficient that how the contamination of the nozzles affects the heating efficiency of the reflow oven.     

Combined convection and radiation in a tube with circumferential fins and circular disks

Combined convection and radiation heat transfer in a circular tube with circumferential fins and circular disks is investigated for various operating conditions. Using a finite volume technique for steady laminar flow, the governing equations are solved in order to study the flow and temperature fields. TheP- 1 approximation and the weighted sum of gray gases model (WSGGM) are used for solving the radiation transport equation. The results show that the total Nusselt number of combined convection and radiation is higher than that of pure convection. If the temperatures of the combustion gas and the wall in a tube are high, radiation becomes dominant. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the effect of radiation on the total heat transfer. Key Words: Convection, Radiation, Nongray Radiation,P- 1 Approximation, Weighted Sum of Gray Gases Model     

Topological design of heat dissipating structure with forced convective heat transfer

This paper discusses the use of the topology optimization formulation for designing a heat dissipating structure that utilizes forced convective heat transfer. In addition to forced convection, there is also natural convection due to natural buoyancy forces induced by local heating inside fluid. In the present study, the temperature distribution due to forced convection, neglecting buoyancy and viscous dissipation inside fluid, was simulated and optimized. In order to analyze the heat transfer equation with forced convective heat loss and the Navier-Stokes equation, a common sequential computational procedure for this thermo/hydraulic characteristic was implemented. For topology optimization, four material properties were interpolated with respect to spatially defined density design variables: the inverse permeability in the Navier-Stokes equation, the conductivity, density, and the specific heat capacity of the heat transfer equation. From numerical examples, it was found that the balance between the conduction and convection of fluid is of central importance to the design of heat dissipating structures.     

Application of spectral collocation method to conduction and laminar forced heat convection in eccentric annuli

Numerical approach based on the spectral collocation method has been utilized for analyzing heat convection and conduction in eccentric annuli. An eccentric instead of concentric annular duct is sometimes used as a fluid-flow and heat-transfer device especially in nuclear power plants. The hydrodynamically and thermally fully developed laminar flow with uniform heat flux through the inner and outer walls has been analyzed. Also, the conductive heat transfer problem, with uniform rate of internal heat generation in long hollow cylinder, has been solved. The governing equation for the present analysis is Poisson’s equation with constant nonhomogeneous term. Considering temperature and velocity distributions in eccentric annuli, Nusselt numbers and wall shear stresses are presented for various range of eccentricities. The spectral collocation method used in this study is verified by comparing the numerical solutions from the existing analytical solution and it is clear that this method is appropriate for assessing a more complicated heat transfer problem.     

An efficient way of convection heat transfer measurement on a curved surface

Accurate determination of convective heat transfer coefficients on complex surfaces with high spatial resolution is essential in the design and analysis of thermal systems. This study focuses on the implementation of a recently developed true color image-processing technique for the quantitative interpretation of liquid crystal images obtained from a curved surface. The interpretation includes the use of a linear hue versus temperature relation as an accurate temperature measuring tool, a color image analysis system and a transient heat transfer model for the conversion of time accurate temperature information into heat transfer coefficient maps. A square to rectangular transition duct is used as a heat transfer model representative of a curved geometry. The transient heat transfer experiments are performed with ambient temperature air in the transition duct model which is preheated by a custom designed electric heater. The measurements are performed on the curved bottom surface of the transition duct. Two dimensional surface distributions of heat transfer coefficient on the curved surface are presented with high spatial resolution. The hue-capturing technique provides extremely fine details of heat transfer coefficient when compared to other conventional discrete sensor methods. The technique is a highly automated heat transfer measurement method which reduces lengthy data reduction processes and significantly improves spatial resolution.     

Two-phase flow heat transfer of R-134a in microtubes

The characteristics of the two-phase flow heat transfer of R-134a in microtubes with inner diameters of 430 μm and 792 μm were experimentally investigated. The effect of the heat flux on the heat transfer coefficient for microtubes was significant before the transition quality. The boiling number expressed the interrelation between the heat flux and the mass about the heat transfer coefficients. The smaller microtube had greater heat transfer coefficients; the average heat transfer coefficient for the tube A (D _i = 430 μm) was 47.0% greater than that for the tube B (D _i = 792 μm) at G = 370 kg/m²·s and q″ = 20 kW·m². A new correlation for the evaporative heat transfer coefficients in microtubes was developed by considering the following factors: the laminar flow heat transfer coefficient of liquid-phase flow, the enhancement factor of the convective heat transfer, and the nucleate boiling correction factor. The correlation developed in present study predicted the experimental heat transfer coefficients within an absolute average deviation of 8.4%.     

Numerical analysis of the flow and heat transfer characteristics for forced convection-radiation in entrance region of an internally finned tubes

The flow and heat transfer characteristics of combined forced convection and radiation in the entrance region of internally finned tubes are investigated numerically in this paper. The uniform flow is considered for an inlet flow condition. A three dimensional parabolic problem is solved by a marching-type procedure envolving a series of two dimensional elliptic problems in the cross-stream plane. The SIMPLER-algorithm and Raithby's pressure-velocity coupling method are employed to analyze the flow and heat transfer characteristics. For the calculation of radiative heat transfer, the P₁-approximation and the weighted sum of gray gases method (WSGGM) are used. The effects of fin height, number of fins, optical thickness, reference temperature, and Planck number on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are examined. It was found that the effect of fin-height on the heat transfer characteristic is more dominant than that of number of fins. The present results show that the optimal non-dimensional fin height and number of fins are 0.4 and 16, respectively.     

Cu-water nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a shrinking sheet

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology - The influence of an external magnetic field and thermal radiation on Cu-water nanofluid flow and heat transfer over a shrinking sheet with slip...     

The forced convection flow over a flat plate with finite length with a constant convective boundary condition

The flow of a fluid past a flat plate of finite length and infinite width (two-dimensional flow) is considered. The plate is heated by convection from a fluid with constant temperature T _f with a constant heat transfer coefficient h _f . In all previous works, the problem was considered using boundary layer theory whereas, in the present work, the solution is based on the full Navier-Stokes equations. The problem is investigated numerically with a finite volume method using the commercial code ANSYS FLUENT. The governing parameters are the Reynolds number, the new heat transfer parameter, and the Prandtl number. In addition, the influence of these three parameters on the temperature field is investigated. It is found that high Reynolds and high Prandtl numbers the wall temperature increases along the plate. They reach a maximum near the trailing edge then decrease. The same occurs as the heat transfer parameter increases. When the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers are low, the plate temperature tends to become symmetric, with a maximum at the middle of the plate. The temperature profiles become thicker as the Reynolds number and the Prandtl number is reduced while the temperature profiles become thicker as the heat transfer parameter increases.     

Characteristics of fluid flow and heat transfer in a fluidized heat exchanger with circulating solid particles

The commercial viability of heat exchanger is mainly dependent on its long-term fouling characteristic because the fouling increases the pressure loss and degrades the thermal performance of a heat exchanger. An experimental study was performed to investigate the characteristics of fluid flow and heat transfer in a fluidized bed heat exchanger with circulating various solid particles. The present work showed that the higher densities of particles had higher drag force coefficients, and the increases in heat transfer were in the order of sand, copper, steel, aluminum, and glass below Reynolds number of 5,000.     

Dual reciprocity boundary element analysis for the laminar forced heat convection problem in concentric annulus

This paper presents a study of the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM) for the laminar heat convection problem in a concentric annulus with constant heat flux boundary condition. DRBEM is one of the most successful technique used to transform the domain integrals arising from the nonhomogeneous term of the Poisson equation into equivalent boundary only integrals. This recently developed and highly efficient numerical method is tested for the solution accuracy of the fluid flow and heat transfer study in a concentric annulus. Since their exact solutions are available, DRBEM solutions are verified with different number of boundary element discretizations and internal points. The results obtained in this study are discussed with the relative error percentage of velocity and temperature solutions, and potential applicability of the method for the more complicated heat convection problems with arbitrary duct geometries.     

Natural convection heat transfer estimation from a longitudinally finned vertical pipe using CFD

In this study, CFD analysis of air-heating vaporizers was conducted. A longitudinally finned vertical pipe was used to represent the air-heating vaporizer in the CFD model. Nitrogen gas was used as the working fluid inside the vertical pipe, and it was made to flow upward. Ambient air, which was the heat source, was assumed to contain no water vapor. To validate the CFD results, the convective heat transfer coefficients inside the pipe, h_i-c, derived from the CFD results were first compared with the heat transfer coefficients inside the pipe, h_i-p, which were derived from the Perkins correlation. Second, the convection heat transfer coefficients outside the pipe, h_o-c, derived from the CFD results were compared with the convection heat transfer coefficients, h_o-a, which were derived from an analytical solution of the energy equation. Third, the CFD results of both the ambient-air flow pattern and temperature were observed to determine whether they were their reasonability. It was found that all validations showed good results. Subsequently, the heat transfer coefficients for natural convection outside the pipe, h_o-c, were used to determine the Nusselt number outside the pipe, Nu_o.. This was then correlated with the Rayleigh number, R_a. The results show that R_a and Nu_o have a proportional relationship in the range of 2.7414×10¹² ≤ Ra ≤ 2.8263×10¹³. Based on this result, a relation for the Nusselt number outside the pipe, Nu_o, was proposed. This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Man Yeong Ha Hyomin Jeong is currently a professor of Mechanical and Precision Engineering at Gyeongsang Nation University. He received his ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1992 and he joined Arizona State University as a visiting professor from 2008 to 2009. His research interests are in fluid engineering, CFD, cryogenic system, cascade refrigeration system and ejector system, mechanical vapor compression Hanshik Chung is a professor of Mechanical and Precision Engineering at Gyeongsang National University. He obtianed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Donga University. He joined Changwon Master’s College and Tongyeong Fisher National College as an assistant Professor in 1988 and 1993, respectively. His research fields extend into the thermal engineering, heat transfer, solar heating & cooling system, LNG vaporizer optimum, solar cell, hydrogen compressor for fuel cell and making fresh water system from sea water