Roughness enhanced mechanism for turbulent convective heat transfer

The mechanism of turbulent convective heat transfer enhancement was experimentally investigated by measuring the heat transfer in two dimensional roughness tubes with different roughness heights at various Reynolds numbers. The results show that there is a maximum Nusselt number ratio (Nu/Nu₀) for a fixed roughness height with increasing Reynolds numbers. For water as working fluid, heat transfer can hardly be increased when the roughness height is lower than the thickness of the viscous sublayer, and both heat transfer and flow friction begin to increase when the roughness height is higher than the viscous sublayer. When the roughness height is more than five times of the viscous sublayer thickness, the flow friction begins to increase sharply but heat transfer is slowly enhanced. So the best heat transfer enhancement for a given pumping power is reached when the roughness height is about three times of the viscous sublayer thickness. The Prandtl number influences to the turbulent heat transfer enhancement by roughness were also analyzed.     

Improvement of heat transfer with perforated circular holes in finned tubes of air-cooled heat exchanger

The present study investigated the effect of perforated circular finned-tube (PCFT) on the convective heat transfer performance of circular finned-tube heat exchangers. The air-side convective heat transfer coefficients increased by 3.55% and 3.31% for 2-hole and 4-hole PCFT cases, respectively. The increase in the convective heat transfer coefficient was related to the reduction of the recirculation region by introducing the perforations at the flow-separation locations on the finned tube. The pressure drop across the finned-tube bundles increased by 0.68% and 2.08% for the 2-hole PCFT and 4-hole PCFT cases, respectively. The greater pressure drop in the case of the 4-hole PCFT might be due to excessive flow disturbances produced by multiple perforations. The fin factor defined as the ratio of the % increase of the convective heat transfer coefficient and that of the pressure drop was 5.19 for the 2-hole PCFT case, whereas that was 1.59 for the 4-hole PCFT case.     

Numerical investigation of heat transfer enhancement on a porous vortex-generator applied to a block-heated channel

The numerical simulation is used to obtain the unsteady laminar flow and convective heat transfer in the block-heated channel with the porous vortex-generator. The general Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer model is adopted for the porous vortex-generator. The parameters studies including porosity, Darcy number, width-to-height ratio of porous vortex-generator and Reynolds number have been explored on heat transfer enhancement and vortex-induced vibration in detail. The results indicate that heat transfer enhancement and vortex-induced vibration increase with increasing Reynolds number and width-to-height ratio. However, the porosity has slight influence on heat transfer enhancement and vortex-induced vibration. When Darcy number is 10^?3 or 10^?4, installing a porous vortex-generator with B/h = 1.0 improves overall heat transfer the best along heated blocks, and has a strong reduction of vortex-induced vibration.     

Numerical investigations of curved square channel from the viewpoint of field synergy principle

A curved square channel in laminar flow is numerically investigated based on the classical Navier–Stokes equations from the viewpoint of the field synergy principle. The field synergy principle may accurately describe the curved channel has higher convective heat transfer rate in the case that the heat transfer surface is specified on the outer wall, rather than on the inner wall. The field synergy principle could also be responsible for that the curved channel can enhance the convective heat transfer significantly at the cost of the slight increase of the flow resistance. The field synergy number represents the degree of the synergy between the temperature gradient and the velocity vector, the higher field synergy number leads to the higher convective heat transfer rate under the same Reynolds number and Prandtl number. The field synergy number plays the same positive role in the convective heat transfer whether the fluid is heated or cooled.     

Investigation on the characteristics of the flow and heat transfer in bilaterally heated narrow annuli

The characteristics of the flow and convective heat transfer on the conditions of both developed laminar and turbulent flow in bilaterally heat narrow annuli were investigated. Investigations show that the ratio of heating flux at the inner wall to that at the outer wall, and the gap size of narrow annuli as well, have great influences on the heat transfer characteristics during flowing in bilaterally heated narrow annuli. Under laminar flow condition, the decreases of the gap size will lead to the heat transfer deterioration both on the inner and outer walls. However with respect to the case of the turbulent flow conditions, it is quite different. The decrease of the gap size will yield heat transfer deterioration on the inner wall, but it will enhance the heat transfer coefficient on the outer wall. In addition, whether the convective heat transfer is enhanced or reduced depends on the combination effect of the heat-flux ratio and the Reynolds number. The decrease of the gap size will reduce the convective heat transfer when the heat-flux ratio is smaller, and enhance the heat transfer coefficient when the heat-flux ratio becomes greater under a certain Reynolds number. Predicted friction coefficients and heat transfer coefficients were compared to experimental data as well, and they were found to be in good agreement.     

金属泡沫平板结构内对流换热的数值研究

基于Brinkman-Darcy模型和两方程模型,本文对流体在金属泡沫平板通道内的强制对流换热进行了自编程数值模拟,采用体积平均法对流体在金属泡沫内的流动和换热进行宏观处理。模拟结果表明：流体主流速度随孔密度增大而减小,随孔隙率增大而增大;流体相和固体相之间的局部对流换热系数随孔隙率和孔密度增加而增加,金属泡沫对流换热性能随孔隙率增大而减小,随孔密度增大而增大。金属泡沫强化换热的效果十分明显,可以应用于需要强化换热的紧凑式换热器和散热器。     

Upflow turbulent mixed convection heat transfer in vertical pipes

The present work deals with the results of an experimental investigation on heat transfer in water cooled vertical pipes, for thermal–hydraulic conditions ranging from forced convective flow to mixed convective flow. The flow of water in the pipe is upwards.Experimental data confirm the reduction in the heat transfer rate for mixed convection in upward heat flow, mainly due to the laminarization effect in the near-wall region (buoyancy effect) . They are in a very good agreement with numerical methods, such as the k–-model.A new method for the calculation of the heat transfer coefficient in upward mixed convection heated flow is proposed. It is based on the well-known superposition method (heated downflow) modified accounting for the phenomenology of the upward heated flow in comparison with downflow heated conditions.     

Finite element analysis of the flow and heat transfer of solid particles in moving beds

A numerical analysis for the flow and heat transfer of solid particles in moving beds of heat exchangers is presented. The solid particles pass through a bundle of heat source tubes as the result of the gravitational force. Heat energy is transferred through direct contact of particles with the heat source tubes. A viscous-plastic fluid model and a convective heat transfer model are employed in the analysis. The flow field dominantly determines the total heat transfer in the heat exchanger. As the velocities of solid particles around the heat source tubes increase, the heat transfer from the tubes also increases. Examples are presented to show the performance of the numerical model. The effect of flow on heat transfer has also been studied. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Numerical simulation of thermofluid characteristics of two-phase slug flow in microchannels

A fundamental study of heat transfer characteristics of two-phase slug flow in microchannels is carried out employing the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. Despite of the fact that numerical simulations of two-phase flows in microchannels have been attempted by many investigators, most efforts seem to have failed in correctly capturing the flow physics, especially those pertaining to the slug flow regime characteristics. The presence of a thin liquid film in the order of 10 μm around the bubble is a contributing factor to the above difficulty. Typically, liquid films have a significant effect on the flow field and heat transfer characteristics. In the simulations reported in this paper, the film is successfully captured and a very high local convective heat transfer coefficient is observed in the film region. A strong coupling between the conductive heat transfer in the solid wall and the convective heat transfer in the flow field is observed and characterized. Results showed that unsteady heat transfer through the solid wall in the axial direction is comparable to that in the radial direction. Results also showed that a fully developed condition could be achieved fairly quickly compared to single-phase flows. The fully developed condition is defined based on the Peclet number (Pe) and a dimensionless length of the liquid slug. Local and time-averaged Nusselt numbers for slug flows are reported for the first time. It was found that significant improvements in the heat transfer coefficient could be achieved by short slugs where the Nusselt number was found to be 610% higher than in single-phase flows. The study revealed new findings related to slug flow heat transfer in microchannels with constant wall heat flux.     

A unified analysis on enhancing single phase convective heat transfer with field synergy principle

Numerical simulations were conducted to reveal the inherent relation between the filed synergy principle and the three existing mechanisms for enhancing single phase convective heat transfer. It is found that the three mechanisms, i.e., the decreasing of thermal boundary layer, the increasing of flow interruption and the increasing of velocity gradient near a solid wall, all lead to the reduction of intersection angle between velocity and temperature gradient. It is also revealed that at low flow speed, the fin attached a tube not only increases heat transfer surface but also greatly improves the synergy between the velocity and the temperature gradient.     

Energetic and Exergetic Performances of Plate Heat Exchanger Using Brine-Based Hybrid Nanofluid for Milk Chilling Application

Abstract

Theoretical study on the energetic and exergetic performances of a counter-flow corrugated plate heat exchanger using hybrid nanofluids for the milk chilling application has been done in the present investigation. Magnesia-silver and Alumina-silver nanoparticles have been dispersed in the ethylene glycol–water mixture and propylene glycol–water mixture (20:80 brine solutions) with different particle volume concentration separately. Effect of particle volume concentration and flow rate of the hybrid nanofluid on the heat transfer rate, convective, and overall heat transfer coefficients, mass flow rate of milk, pressure drop, pumping power, entropy generation rate, second law efficiency, irreversibility, irreversibility distribution ratio, non-dimensional exergy (NDE) destruction, and performance index have been studied. It has been observed that heat transfer rate, convective and overall heat transfer coefficients, pressure drop, pumping power, irreversibility, entropy generation rate, second law efficiency, and milk flow rate increase; while NDE destruction, performance index, and irreversibility distribution ratio decrease with the hybrid nanofluid flow rate and the volume concentration of the nanofluid. Within studied ranges, the hybrid nanofluid yields the maximum improvement of heat transfer rate and convective heat transfer coefficient of about 1.6% and 9.4%, respectively, compared to base fluid. It has also been found that silver?+?alumina shows slightly better performance improvement and hence hybrid nanofluid is recommended as a suitable alternative for the milk chilling units.     

DNS study by a bilayer model on the mechanism of heat transfer reduction in drag-reduced flow induced by surfactant

A bilayer model proposed in [1] is used to investigate the mechanism of heat transfer reduction of surfactant-induced drag-reducing channel flow with a constant heat flux imposed on both walls by direct numerical simulation. In the bilayer model, Newtonian fluid and viscoelastic fluid are assumed to coexist with shear stress balance satisfied between the two fluid layers. A Giesekus model is used to model the viscoelastic fluid induced by the addition of surfactant additives. High-order compact difference schemes are applied to discretize the convective and diffusion terms whereas MINMOD scheme is used to discretize the convective terms in the Giesekus constitutive equations to enhance numerical stability. The effectiveness of the surfactant additives at different flow region on heat transfer reduction is investigated.     

A modelling study to the heat transfer between immersed surfaces and large-particle fluidized beds

A new theoretical model is proposed for the heat transfer between immersed surfaces and large-particle fluidized beds. The heat transfer of the emulsion phase to the immersed surface is treated as the sum of the convective part of the interstitial fluid flow and the conductive part of the solid particles. The heat transfer of bubbles to the surfaces is also considered. The theoretical calculating formulae obtained are in fairly good agreement with experimental data in a large region.     

Conjugate heat transfer characterization in cooling channels

Cooling technology of gas turbine blades,primarily ensured via internal forced convection,is aimed towards withdrawing thermal energy from the airfoil.To promote heat exchange,the walls of internal cooling passages are lined with repeated geometrical flow disturbance elements and surface non-uniformities.Raising the heat transfer at the expense of increased pressure loss;the goal is to obtain the highest possible cooling effectiveness at the lowest possible pressure drop penalty.The cooling channel heat transfer problem involves convection in the fluid domain and conduction in the solid.This coupled behavior is known as conjugate heat transfer.This experimental study models the effects of conduction coupling on convective heat transfer by applying iso-heat-flux boundary condition at the external side of a scaled serpentine passage.Investigations involve local temperature measurements performed by Infrared Thermography over flat and ribbed slab configurations.Nusselt number distributions along the wetted surface are obtained by means of heat flux distributions,computed from an energy balance within the metal domain.For the flat plate experiments,the effect of conjugate boundary condition on heat transfer is estimated to be in the order of 3%.In the ribbed channel case,the normalized Nusselt number distributions are compared with the basic flow features.Contrasting the findings with other conjugate and convective iso-heat-flux literature,a high degree of overall correlation is evident.     

Steady mixed convective flow and heat transfer from tandem square cylinders in a horizontal channel

The two-dimensional laminar steady mixed convective flow and heat transfer around two identical tandem square cylinders confined in a horizontal channel are simulated by the high-accuracy multidomain pseudo-spectral method. The blockage ratio of the channel is chosen as 0.1, whereas the spacing between the cylinders is fixed with four widths of the cylinder. The Prandtl number is fixed at 0.7, the Reynolds number (Re) is studied in the range 5?≤?Re?≤?60, and the Richardson number (Ri) demonstrating the influence of thermal buoyancy ranges from 0 to 1. Numerical results reveal that, with the thermal buoyancy effect, the mixed convective flow remains steady. The variations of the overall drag and lift coefficients and the Nusselt numbers, are presented and discussed. Furthermore, the influence of thermal buoyancy on fluid flow and heat transfer is discussed and analyzed.     

管内填充多孔介质强化换热的数值研究

管内填充多孔介质强化换热的基本原理是构造热边界层,增大壁面附近流体的温度梯度,并且流动阻力增幅不大。本文运用数值模拟的方法,模拟填充多孔介质管内的流场和温度场,探讨填充比例φ、渗透率Da以及空隙率ε对管内对流换热的影响规律。研究表明,提高填充比例φ和减小渗透率Da都能明显提高换热效果,但也增加了管内流动阻力。空隙率ε对强化换热作用不大,但高空隙率可以明显降低管内流动阻力,在实际中应选用空隙率较大的多孔介质。     

Forced Convective Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Air Flowing in a Rectangle Duct with Cross-Ribs on the Opposite Walls

Experiments were conducted to investigate the forced convective heat transfer and flow friction of turbulent airflow in a rectangular duct with cross-ribs attached at the two principal walls in the Reynolds number range from 5000 to 40000. The effect of the rib cross angle (45° 60° 75° and the height (4 mm, 5 mm) of the cross-ribs on the forced convection and flow friction were tested. Non-dimensional correlations for the duct average Nusselt number and friction factor of cross-ribs duct were developed from the test data. Experiments were also conducted for the corresponding parallel ribs to compare their relative performance. The experimental results show that both of the convective heat transfer coefficient and friction factor were increased with cross-ribs, with 45°cross-ribs being the best. Compared with parallel ribs normal to the flow direction under identical flow rate and identical pumping power constraints, the cross-ribs can enhance heat transfer in the lower Reynolds number region, while i     

Experimental investigations on overall cooling effect of ribbed channel with air bleeds

An experimental investigation on overall heat transfer performance of a rectangular channel, in which one wall has periodically placed oblique ribs to enhance heat exchange and cylindrical film holes to bleed cooling air, has been carried out in a hot wind tunnel at different mainstream temperatures, hot mainstream Reynolds numbers, coolant Reynolds numbers and blowing ratios. To describe the cooling effect of combined external coolant film with the internal heat convection enhanced by the ribs, the overall cooling effectiveness at the surface exposed in the mainstream with high temperature was calculated by the surface temperatures measured with an infrared thermal imaging system. The total mass flow rate of cooling air through the coolant channel was regulated by a digital mass flow rate controller, and the blowing ratio passing through the total film holes was calculated based on the measurements of another digital-type mass flow meter. The detailed distributions of overall cooling effectiveness show distinctive peaks in heat transfer levels near the film holes, remarkable inner convective heat transfer effect over entire channel surface, and visible conductive heat transfer effect through the channel wall; but only when the coolant Reynolds number is large enough, the oblique rib effect can be detected from the overall cooling effectiveness; and the oblique bleeding hole effect shows the more obvious trend with increasing blowing ratios. Based on the experimental data, the overall cooling effectiveness is correlated as the functions of Re_m (Reynolds number of hot mainstream) and Re_c (Reynolds number of internal coolant flow at entrance) for the parametric conditions examined.     

Effect of eccentricity and radius ratio on fluid flow and heat transfer inside an eccentric semicircular enclosure

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The roughness effects on friction and heat transfer in the fully developed turbulent flow in pipes

Convective heat transfer coefficient is strongly influenced by the mechanism of flow during forced convection. In this paper, the effect of pipe roughness on friction factor and convective heat transfer in fully developed turbulent flow are briefly discussed. A correlation for the friction factor applicable in the region of transition to the fully developed turbulent flow regime is proposed. Using this relationship, some new approximation formulae are proposed to predict the convective heat transfer coefficients in the pipes with a relative roughness of ε/D⩽0.05. The effectiveness parameter for the heat transfer is investigated as a function of the pipe roughness, Reynolds number and Prandtl number. The effect of fouling is also briefly discussed. The predictions of the proposed correlations are compared with the experimental data and with some other previous correlations given in the literature.