Evaporation Heat Transfer Coefficient in a Capillary Pumped Loop and Loop Heat Pipe for Different Working Fluids

Capillary pumped loop (CPL) and loop heat pipe (LHP) are passive two-phase heat transport devices. They have been gaining importance as a part of the thermal control system of spacecraft. The evaporation heat transfer coefficient at the tooth–wick interface of an LHP or CPL has a significant impact on the evaporator temperature. It is also the main parameter in sizing of a CPL or LHP. Experimentally determined evaporation heat transfer coefficients from a three-port CPL with tubular axially grooved (TAG) evaporator and a TAG LHP with acetone, R-134A, and ammonia as working fluids are presented in this paper. The influences of working fluid, hydrodynamic blocks in the core, evaporator configuration (LHP or CPL), and adverse elevation (evaporator above condenser) on the heat transfer coefficient are presented.     

Research on the Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Loop Heat Pipe Used as Mainline Heat Transfer Mode for Spacecraft

An experimental research is conducted on the heat transfer characteristics of a loop heat pipe(LHP) used in the "mainline" heat transfer mode for spacecraft platform thermal control. The heat from multiple instruments scattered in different locations is collected by thermal control techniques such as axially grooved heat pipes and then transmitted to the radiant surface for dissipation through the LHP in an unified way. The research contents include the start-up characteristics, the operational stability characteristics, the operational blocking characteristics, the continuous blocking characteristics, the heat transfer capability, the thermal resistance, and the dynamic response characteristics under the change of the heat sink temperature. The results show that the higher the auxiliary starting power is, the easier it is to start the LHP; the higher the input power of the thermoelectric cooler is, the more beneficial it is to speed up the stabilization of the vapor-liquid interface in the condenser; the higher the blocking power, the shorter the blocking time of the LHP; the LHP can be operated stably within the heat sink temperature alteration process; the heat transfer ability is higher than 500 W with a systematic thermal resistance of 0.037°C/W.     

Investigation of Heat Transfer in Serpentine Shaped Microchannel Using Al2O3/Water Nanofluid

An experimental investigation was conducted to explore the maximum heat transfer in a serpentine shaped microchannel by varying the hydraulic diameter, flow rates and with influence of Al₂O₃ nanofluid. Microconvection is an important area in heat transport phenomena. Surface area is one of the important factors in high heat transfer in a microchannel heat exchanger. In this study, serpentine shaped microchannels of hydraulic diameters 810, 830, 860, and 890 μm are analyzed for the optimizing the hydraulic diameter to get enhanced thermal performance of the microchannel. A copper material microchannel having length a of 70 mm is used. Flow rate also varied from 1 lpm (Litres per minute) to 3.5 lpm for optimization with nanofluid as a medium. From numerical study it is observed that as the hydraulic diameter decreases from 890 μm to 810 μm the pressure drop increases with a decrease in hydraulic diameter. Also as heat input to the microchannel increases from 5 watts to 70 watts. From analysis it is observed that the hydraulic diameter of the microchannel is a major factor in microchannel heat transfer which is dependent on flow rate of fluid in the microchannel. The results also show that suspended Al₂O₃ nanoparticles in fluids have enhanced heat transfer when compared to the base fluid.     

Heat Transfer Studies of a Heat Pipe

The present investigation reports a theoretical and experimental study of a wire screen heat pipe, the evaporator section of which is subjected to forced convective heating and the condenser section to natural convective cooling in air. The theoretical study deals with the development of an analytical model based on thermal resistance network approach. The model computes thermal resistances at the external surface of the evaporator and condenser as well as inside the heat pipe. A test rig has been developed to evaluate the thermal performance of the heat pipe. The effects of operating parameters (i.e., tilt angle of the heat pipe and heating fluid inlet temperature at the evaporator) have been experimentally studied. Experimental results have been used to compare the analytical model. The heat transfer coefficients predicted by the model at the external surface of the evaporator and condenser are reasonably in agreement with experimental results.     

Heat Transfer by Nanofluid with Different Nanoparticles in a Solar Collector

The buoyancy flow and heat transfer characteristics inside a solar collector having the flat‐plate cover and sinusoidal corrugated absorber are analyzed numerically. The water‐based nanofluid with alumina and copper nanoparticles is used as the working fluid inside the solar collector. The governing partial differential equations with proper boundary conditions are solved by the finite element method using Galerkin's weighted residual scheme. The behavior of both nanoparticles related to performance such as temperature and velocity distributions, radiative and convective heat transfers, mean temperature, and velocity of the nanofluid is investigated systematically. This performance includes the solid volume fraction, namely ?₁ and ?₂, with respect to Al ₂ O ₃ and Cu nanoparticles. The results show that the better performance of heat transfer inside the collector is found by using the highest ?₂ than ?₁. The result of this study expresses a good agreement with the theoretical result available in the literature. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res, 43(1): 61–79, 2014; Published online in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/htj ). DOI 10.1002/htj.21061     

Numerical Study of Nanofluid Condensation Heat Transfer in a Square Microchannel

This study presents a numerical study of nanofluid condensation heat transfer inside a single horizontal smooth square tube. The numerical results are compared to previous experimental predictions, and show that the heat transfer coefficient can be improved 20% by increasing the volume fraction of Cu nanoparticles by 5% or increasing the mass flux from 80 to 110 kg/m² s. Reducing the hydraulic diameter of the microchannel from 200 to 160 µm led to an increase in average condensation heat transfer coefficient of 10%. A new correlation estimating Nusselt number for condensation of nanofluids or pure vapor is proposed. It predicts average condensation heat transfer, with good agreement with the computed values.     

Convective Heat Transfer in a Vertical Rectangular Duct Filled with a Nanofluid

An analysis is performed to study natural convective heat transfer in a vertical rectangular duct filled with a nanofluid. One of the vertical walls of the duct is cooled by a constant temperature, while the other wall is heated by a constant temperature. The other two sides of the duct are thermally insulated. The transport equations for a Newtonian fluid are solved numerically with a finite volume method of second‐order accuracy. The influence of pertinent parameters such as Grashof number, Brinkman number, aspect ratio and solid volume fraction on the heat transfer characteristics of natural convection is studied. Results for the volumetric flow rate and skin friction for Copper and Diamond nanoparticles are also drawn. The Nusselt number for various types of nanoparticle such as silver, copper, diamond and titanium oxide are also tabulated. The results indicate that inclusion of nanoparticles into pure water improves its heat transfer performance; however, there is an optimum solid volume fraction which maximizes the heat transfer rate.     

Entropy Generation of Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a Square Cavity Using Al2O3–Water Nanofluid

Entropy generation of an Al₂O₃–water nanofluid due to heat transfer and fluid friction irreversibility has been investigated in a square cavity subject to different side‐wall temperatures using a nanofluid for natural convection flow. This study has been carried out for the pertinent parameters in the following ranges: Rayleigh number between 10⁴ and 10⁷ and volume fraction between 0 and 0.05. Based on the obtained dimensionless velocity and temperature values, the distributions of local entropy generation, average entropy generation, and average Bejan number are determined. The results are compared for a pure fluid and a nanofluid. It is totally found that the heat transfer, and entropy generation of the nanofluid is more than the pure fluid and minimum entropy generation and Nusselt number occur in the pure fluid at any Rayleigh number. Results depict that the addition of nanoparticles to the pure fluid has more effect on the entropy generation as the Rayleigh number goes up.     

Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics of Al2O3/Water Nanofluid in Various Heat Exchangers: Experiments on Counter Flow

Abstract

On account of nanofluids influence on heat exchangers (HEs), a vigorous discussion can be made to concurrently contrast HEs to one another under the same conditions to detect maximum efficacy. Based on an extensive experimental study, this research is established to examine the effect of nanofluids on the performance of heterogeneous HEs with the same heat transfer surface area considering counter flow arrangement. A double pipe HE, a shell and tube HE and a plate HE are intended to accomplish the experiments. The experiments are executed under turbulent flow conditions using distilled water and Al₂O₃/water nanofluid with 0.2, 0.5, and 1% particle volume concentrations. From the results shown in the article, the double pipe HE revealed the best outcome for the heat transfer coefficient with a maximum enhancement of 60% while a maximum enhancement in the heat transfer coefficient of 11% was reported for the plate HE. Utilizing a nanofluid represented the lowest penalty in the pressure drop with a maximum enhancement of 27% for the plate HE while the highest penalty in the pressure drop with a maximum enhancement of 85% was observed in the double pipe and shell and tube HEs.     

Conjugate Heat Transfer from Sudden Expansion Using Nanofluid

Conjugate heat transfer from sudden expansion using nanofluid is studied numerically. The governing equations are solved using unsteady stream function-vorticity formulation method. Results are compared with zero nanoparticle fluid to exhibit the role of nanoparticle. The effect of volume fraction of nanoparticles and type of nanoparticles on heat transfer are examined and found to have a significant impact. Local Nusselt number and average Nusselt number are reported in connection with various nanoparticle, volume fraction, and Reynolds number for expansion ratio 2. Two dimensionality is more pronounced in the solid wall up to recirculation length. Local Nusselt number reaches peak values near the reattachment point and reaches asymptotic value in the downstream. Bottom wall eddy and volume fraction show significant impact on average Nusselt number. The wall thickness causes larger temperature gradient at the conjugate interface boundary, which leads to larger average Nusselt number.     

SiO2纳米流体强化换热的实验和仿真研究

为研究纳米流体稳定性并增强换热机理,在乙二醇/去离子水基液中,采用原液化学生长法制备了不同质量浓度（1%,2%,3%,4%和5%）的氧化硅-乙二醇/水纳米流体,通过Zeta电位测量和透射扫描电镜实验表征纳米流体的稳定性。实验测量并研究了温度和质量浓度对纳米流体的导热系数和粘度的影响。依据实测结果,利用格子玻尔兹曼方法对圆管内纳米流体的流动与换热特性进行数值模拟研究。结果表明：二氧化硅颗粒在基液中具有良好的稳定性;纳米流体的导热系数随温度和质量浓度的提高而增大;纳米流体的加入可以显著提高基液的对流换热系数,当质量浓度为5%时对流换热系数的提高幅度可达到25.5%。     

Laminar Heat Transfer in a Pipe Subjected to a Circumferentially Varying External Heat Transfer Coefficient

Abstract

Numerical techniques have been used to solve the thermally developed regime for a laminar pipe flow that exchanges heat with a fluid environment in the presence of a circumferentially varying external heat transfer coefficient. By making use of the fact that the temperature distributions have similar shapes at successive streamwise locations, the three-dimensional temperature field was scaled to two dimensions. The resulting two-dimensional eigenvalue problem was solved by a rapidly converging automated scheme that successively refines an initial guess. Solutions were obtained for two circumferential distributions of the external heat transfer coefficient respectively intended to model forced and natural convection cross flows. The circumferential average heat transfer coefficient was found to be quite insensitive to the imposed circumferential variations. The local wall heat flux is nearly circumferentially uniform when the mean value of the external coefficient is high. On the other hand, at low mean values of the external coefficient, the local wall heat flux tends to follow the imposed circumferential variations.     

Numerical Study of Nanofluid Convective Heat Transfer in Sinusoidal Tubes

ABSTRACT

The waviness of tube wall and adding nanoparticles to fluid as two passive enhanced heat-transfer techniques are dully accepted; however, the combined effect of their simultaneous usage has not been dealt with, yet. Therefore in the present study, the convective heat transfer of nanofluid laminar flow inside straight tube and sinusoidal tubes under constant heat flux boundary condition was documented. The nanofluid used in this study was Al₂O₃/water with volume fractions from 0 to 4%. The effects of Reynolds number, volume fractions of nanoparticles, and the geometry of sinusoidal tubes upon the heat-transfer coefficient were investigated. The results showed that using sinusoidal tubes enhances heat-transfer coefficients. Also, it was observed that increasing Reynolds number leads to higher heat-transfer coefficients in the convergent section. Moreover, it was observed that increasing the sinusoidal wave amplitude augments the convective heat-transfer coefficients; however, the increase in Nusselt number was slight. Furthermore, adding nanoparticles enhances heat transfer especially in large wave amplitude sinusoidal tubes.     

Experimental and Numerical Study of Turbulent Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer of Al2O3/Water Nanofluid in a Spiral-Coil Tube

Enhancement of heat transfer by nanofluids is reported by a large number of researchers. In this study, numerical and experimental investigation of heat transfer and flow characteristics of Al₂O₃/water nanofluid flowing in a spiral-coil tube is performed for various flow conditions. The spiral-coil tube is immersed horizontally in a hot water bath maintained at 60°C. Experiments are conducted in a turbulent flow regime using distilled water and nanofluid with 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5% particle volume concentrations. Also, a computational fluid dynamics methodology is used to simulate heat transfer and flow characteristics corresponding to the experimental measurements and for further flow conditions. Simulation results are compared with the experimental measurements, and 85% agreement between the results is observed. The results showed that convective heat transfer coefficient of nanofluid is enhanced up to 61% compared with that of the base fluid. Based on the experimental measurements, a new correlation is developed to predict convection heat transfer from nanofluids in spiral-coil tubes.     

Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a Nanofluid Filled U-Shaped Enclosures: Numerical Investigations

In the present work, enhancement of convective heat transfer rate in three-dimensional U-shaped enclosures using nanofluids is numerically investigated. Two different types of nanoparticles, namely, Cu, and Al₂O₃, with pure water, are the considered single-phase nanofluids. Natural convection and geometric parameter effects on the averaged Nusselt numbers are investigated. Velocity vectors and isotherm fields for the Al₂O₃/H₂O nanofluid are presented at various Rayleigh numbers. The governing dimensionless equations are solved using the commercial finite-volume-based computational fluid dynamics code, FLUENT. Our results are consistent with previously published predictions. In particular, heat transfer enhancement is found to increase with increasing nanoparticles volume fractions, Rayleigh numbers, as well as cooled wall length extensions.     

Natural Convection Heat Transfer in an Inclined Enclosure Filled with a Water-Cuo Nanofluid

This article presents the results of a numerical study on natural convection heat transfer in an inclined enclosure filled with a water-CuO nanofluid. Two opposite walls of the enclosure are insulated and the other two walls are kept at different temperatures. The transport equations for a Newtonian fluid are solved numerically with a finite volume approach using the SIMPLE algorithm. The influence of pertinent parameters such as Rayleigh number, inclination angle, and solid volume fraction on the heat transfer characteristics of natural convection is studied. The results indicate that adding nanoparticles into pure water improves its heat transfer performance; however, there is an optimum solid volume fraction which maximises the heat transfer rate. The results also show that the inclination angle has a significant impact on the flow and temperature fields and the heat transfer performance at high Rayleigh numbers. In fact, the heat transfer rate is maximised at a specific inclination angle depending on Rayleigh number and solid volume fraction.     

Numerical Investigation of Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer Around a Calabash-Shaped Body

Numerical simulation on unsteady flow and heat transfer of alumina–water nanofluids around a calabash-shaped body was performed in the present study. Improved models of drag force and Brownian force were introduced. As the reaction time of the particle perturbation is short, fluctuation in vorticity is more intense than that in temperature, and many extreme values are found. The streamline is uplifted near the separation point due to the contribution of the particle inertia, which increases the recirculation zone of the quasi-steady vortex. Fewer particles enter the vortex near the waist portion from the separation region, and relatively more particles enter the recirculation region from the reattachment zone. The local streamline is straightened and flow heat transfer is enhanced. It is shown that the variation in the Nusselt number is strongly related to the critical points along the wall.     

Numerical Investigation of Nanofluid Laminar Convective Heat Transfer through a Circular Tube

Laminar-flow convective heat transfer of nanofluid in a circular tube with constant wall temperature boundary condition is investigated numerically. A dispersion model is used to account for the presence of nanoparticles. Numerical predictions are in agreement with experimental results obtained in our laboratory for different particles in different sizes. Results clearly show that addition of nanoparticles to base liquid produces considerable enhancement of heat transfer. Heat transfer coefficients increase with nanoparticle concentration. Decreasing nanoparticles size at a specific concentration increases heat transfer coefficients.     

Thermo-fluid dynamics of Loop Heat Pipe operation

The paper presents a thermo-fluid dynamic model for the transient operations of a Loop Heat Pipe. The Fourier heat conduction equation in a hollow cylinder is solved to determine the temperature distribution of the compensation chamber and the cavity. A one-dimensional transient model is also derived for the vapor temperature in the condenser section of the Loop Heat Pipe. The thermo-fluid dynamic characteristic of a Stainless Steel/Ammonia Loop Heat Pipe is analyzed.