阵列射流冲击冷却换热特性的数值研究

运用数值计算的方法对不同流动取向的多排孔冲击射流冷却特性进行了三维模拟,并对有初始横向流的多排孔冲击射流冷却特性进行了数值研究,揭示出射流雷诺数、流动方向、初始横向流对冲击冷却传热特性的影响规律。结果表明:研究范围内,射流雷诺数越大,冲击靶面换热效果越好;冲击腔室两端都设为出口时努赛尔数峰值所对应的射流驻点区向下游偏移最小且换热效果最好;当横流雷诺数与射流雷诺数之比大于0.5之后,有横流时的冲击射流冷却局部努赛尔数比无横流时有较为显著下降。     

A numerical study of the unsteady flow and heat transfer in a transitional confined slot jet impinging on an isothermal surface

A numerical finite-difference approach was used to compute the steady and unsteady flow and heat transfer due to a confined two-dimensional slot jet impinging on an isothermal plate. The jet Reynolds number was varied from Re=250 to 750 for a Prandtl number of 0.7 and a fixed jet-to-plate spacing of H/W=5. The flow was found to become unsteady at a Reynolds number between 585 and 610. In the steady regime, the stagnation Nusselt number increased monotonically with Reynolds number, and the distribution of heat transfer in the wall jet region was influenced by flow separation caused by re-entrainment of the spent flow back into the jet. At a supercritical Reynolds number of 750 the flow was unsteady and the net effect in the time mean was that the area-averaged heat transfer coefficient was higher compared to what it would have been in the absence of jet unsteady effects. The unsteady jet exhibited a dominant frequency that corresponded to the formation of shear layer vortices at the jet exit. Asymmetry in the formation of the vortex sheets caused deformation or buckling of the jet that induced a low-frequency lateral jet “flapping” instability. The heat transfer responds to both effects and leads to a broadening of the cooled area.     

锥形内肋管传热与流阻性能的数值模拟

根据纵向涡强化传热技术提出了新型的强化换热管——锥形内肋管,运用数值模拟方法,研究了新型强化换热管结构参数锥底宽度a、导程P、肋深e和Re数对Nu、沿程阻力系数f及传热综合因子η的影响。结果表明：换热管内壁面边缘处产生了较多的微小涡流,有效破坏了流动边界层,强化了传热。在充分湍流的条件下,流体Re越小、e越小,其综合传热性能越强。当Re<15 000时,a对η的影响要大于P;在过渡点后, P对η影响较大。通过综合传热性能分析,给出了适合不同Re区间的锥形内肋优化参数。     

Influence of the Reynolds number and the spherical dimple depth on turbulent heat transfer and hydraulic loss in a narrow channel

The paper presents detailed numerical study of heat transfer enhancement by a spherical dimple placed on a wall in a narrow channel. RANS approach with MSST model is applied to investigate the influence of the depth to diameter ratio Δ and the Reynolds number on the flow and heat transfer. Numerical model was successfully validated using LDV measurements, pressure loss data and LES results. Special attention is paid to identification of the flow topology at different Δ and Reynolds numbers. Contribution of different heat exchanger surface parts to the heat transfer enhancement is analyzed. Application of entropy production as a criterion of heat exchanger efficiency is discussed. Detailed information gained from the present computations can be used to get a deep insight into flow physics over dimpled surfaces and as a benchmark for validation of numerical and experimental methods.     

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL PLATE FIN-AND-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS

This numerical study provides three-dimensional (3-D) time-dependent modeling of unsteady laminar flow and heat transfer over single- and multirow plate fin-and-tube heat exchangers. The complex nature of the flow field featuring a horseshoe vortex is investigated for both configurations. The time-dependent evolution of the horseshoe vortex mechanism on the forward part of the tube and its journey to the rear of the tube are studied to provide fundamental information on the local flow structure and the corresponding heat transfer characteristics. The effects of various governing parameters, such as fin spacing, Reynolds number, tube row number, and tube arrangement, on the heat transfer and flow characteristics are also studied for the Reynolds number range investigated. It is found that the local flow structure including formation and evolution of vortex systems and singular-point interactions correlates strongly with the heat transfer characteristics. The numerical results for the integral heat transfer parameters agree well with available experimental measurements.     

Effect of a shield on the hydraulic and thermal performance of a plate-fin heat sink

The hydraulic and thermal performance of a plate-fin heat sink undergoing cross flow forced convection with the introduction of a shield was investigated. With a CFD numerical method, the influence of fin width, fin height, number of fins and Reynolds number were assessed without and with a shield. A shield that tends to decrease the bypass flow effect has a great influence on the variation of the thermal fluid field and the performance of the heat sink. The results of attaching a shield show that more coolant fluid is forced to flow into the fin-to-fin channel to enhance the heat transfer, increasing the pressure drop; this trend is significant at low Reynolds numbers. The decrease of thermal resistance due to the shield diminishes with increasing fin height, but increasing the width of the fins has a more radical effect. For a shield at a particular Reynolds number, the fin geometry should be selected carefully to fit the demands of enhanced effectiveness of heat transfer and decreased power consumption.     

Parametric study of unsteady flow and heat transfer in a pin-fin heat exchanger

A numerical study has been carried out to analyze the unsteady three-dimensional flow and heat transfer in a parallel-plate channel heat exchanger with in-line arrays of periodically mounted rectangular cylinders (pins) at various Reynolds number and geometrical configurations. The three-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solved using higher order temporal and spatial discretizations. The simulations have been carried out for a range of Reynolds number based on cylinder width (180-600) and a Prandtl number of 6.99 (corresponding to water). Conjugate heat transfer calculations have been employed to account for the conduction in the solid cylinder and convection in the fluid. The thermal performance factor (TPF) increases significantly when the flow becomes unsteady. The choice of aspect ratio of the cylinders is judged by their relative increase in friction factor and heat transfer at transitional Reynolds number. The TPF is found to increase with the increase in pitch of the cylinders. The increase in channel height enhances the TPF though the heat transfer decreases at higher channel height.     

Experimental Study on Air Cooling Via a Multiport Mesochannel Cross-Flow Heat Exchanger

The air-side heat transfer and flow characteristics of cross-flow multiport slab mesochannel heat exchanger are investigated experimentally in this article. The multiport slab mesochannel heat exchanger consists of 15 finned aluminum slabs; each slab contains 68 flow channels of 1 mm circular diameter. The cold deionized water at a constant mass flow rate was forced to flow through the mesochannels, whereas the hot air at different velocities was allowed to pass through the finned passages of the heat exchanger core in cross-flow orientation. The heat transfer and fluid flow key parameters were examined in the region of the air-side Reynolds number in the range of 972–2758, with a constant water-side Reynolds number of 135. The effect of air-side Reynolds number on air-side Nusselt number was examined and a general correlation of Nusselt number with Reynolds number was obtained. The Nusselt number value was found to be higher in comparison with other research works for the corresponding Reynolds number range. The multiport mesochannel flat slab geometry has offered uniform temperature distribution into the core. This uniform temperature distribution leads to higher heat transfer over stand-alone inline flow tube bank.     

横掠螺旋管束流动传热的数值模拟

螺旋管是一种紧凑式换热器的芯体形式,在工程中有较多应用。本文对螺旋管管束的流动传热情况进行了数值模拟研究,无量纲螺距0.15～0.3,进口雷诺数1000～5000,获得了横掠复杂螺旋管束的流场和温度场。结果表明：管外平均努赛尔数随雷诺数的增大而增大,欧拉数随雷诺数的增大而减小;减小螺距使平均努赛尔数和欧拉数均增大,且对欧拉数的影响要明显大于努赛尔数。同时通过对数值结果进行拟合给出了管束换热的关联式,式中考虑了无量纲螺距的影响。     

Turbulent heat transfer on the stationary disk in a rotor-stator system

A combined numerical and experimental study was performed to determine the turbulent heat transfer on a stationary disk, which is situated in a close distance from a rotating disk. The RNG k-ε model and the steady-state liquid crystal technique were employed respectively in the numerical simulation and the experiment. In the range of the rotational Reynolds number from 1.42×10⁵ to 3.33×10⁵, the heat transfer rate on the stator and the flow characteristics in the gap between the disks are presented. The results revealed that there exists an optimum rotor-stator distance for a given Reynolds number, at which the average heat transfer on the stator reaches maximum. When the Reynolds number increases, the maximum shifts towards smaller disk-distances.     

Convective heat transfer over a heated square porous cylinder in a channel

A numerical study is made of the unsteady flow and convection heat transfer for a heated square porous cylinder in a channel. The general Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer model is adopted for the porous region. The parameters studies including porosity, Darcy number, and Reynolds number on heat transfer performance have been explored in detail. The results indicate that the average local Nusselt number is augmented as the Darcy number increases. The average local Nusselt number increases as Reynolds number increases; in particular, the increase is more obvious at a higher Darcy number. In contrast, the porosity has slight influence on heat transfer.     

Experimental and Numerical Simulations of Flow and Heat Transfer in Heat Exchanger Elements Using Liquid Crystal Thermography

Experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow were conducted for classic heat exchanger elements (flat plate with fin-tubes in-line, staggered and with vortex generators) and corrugated-undulated ducts under transitional and weakly turbulent conditions.The dependence of average heat transfer and pressure drop on Reynolds number and geometrical parameters was investigated. Distributions of local heat transfer coefficient were obtained by using liquid crystal thermography and surface-averaged values were computed. Three-dimensional numerical simulations were conducted by a finite-volume method using a low-Reynolds number k-e model under the assumption of fully developed flow. Computed flow fields provided otherwise inaccessible information on the flow patterns and the mechanisms of heat transfer enhancement.     

阵列射流冲击冷却流场与温度场的数值模拟

采用数值模拟方法对冲击冷却的流动和传热过程进行了三维数值研究。特别研究了在冲击孔叉排方式下,相邻孔间距、冲击距离以及射流入口雷诺数对冲击表面冷却流动传热特性的影响规律。     

Experimental Study on Wake Development in a Three-cylinder Model within a Tunnel in Transitional Flow

ABSTRACT

The characteristics of the flow and heat transfer in transitional flow are not clear and especially the lack of some reliable experimental data hinders the numerical study of the heat exchanger. Based on this, a two-dimensional time-resolved digital particle image velocimetry from the American-TSI-corporation was adopted. Experiments were carried out in an open-loop, recirculating water tunnel that operated at steady-state conditions. The experimental object is a three-cylinder with an equilateral triangle configuration having center-to-center distance ratio of 3. Reynolds number based on the tube diameter and the velocity of inlet is set at 70, 90, 120, 150, 200, 250 and 300. The flow parameters were quantified to research the effect of Reynolds number on flow field for supporting some facts to analyze the heat transfer. Time-mean flow field, turbulence statistics and velocity processed by proper orthogonal decomposition were investigated at different Reynolds numbers. The wake closure length, oscillation and Karman vortex in the wake of the three-cylinder model were discussed in detail.     

A geometric study on shell side heat transfer and flow resistance of a six-start spirally corrugated tube

Heat transfer enhancement is of great importance for energy efficiency improvement. The utilization of spirally corrugated tubes is one of the efficient ways to strengthen heat transfer. In this article, based on a validated numerical model, the effects of geometric parameters of a six-start spirally corrugated tube, including the pitch p and the corrugation depth e, on the shell side heat transfer and flow resistance performance are numerically investigated, in high Reynolds number conditions ranging from 10,000 to 60,000. The shell side secondary flow velocity distribution, longitudinal vortex distribution, and temperature distribution of a six-start spirally corrugated tube are presented, respectively. In addition, the heat transfer and flow resistance characteristics are evaluated by comparing the Nusselt number and the flow resistance coefficient with these of smooth tubes. Results show that the utilization of six-start spirally corrugated tubes can enhance the heat transfer performance at the expense of an increase of the flow resistance. However, with the same geometric parameters, the Nusselt number increases and the flow resistance coefficient decreases as Reynolds number increases. With the pitch increasing, the Nusselt number and the flow resistance coefficient decrease at a fixed Reynolds number. In contrast, as the corrugation depth increasing, the Nusselt number changes irregularly, and the flow resistance coefficient increases. Finally, correlations for the shell side Nusselt number and flow resistance coefficient of the six-start spirally corrugated tube are established. This work is of significance for engineers and scientists focusing on the heat transfer and the flow resistance characteristics of spirally corrugated tubes and their applications.     

Acknowledgment

An experimental and numerical study has been carried out in order to investigate mixed and natural convection heat transfer in a two-dimensional enclosure. A discrete isothermal heat source is located at one of the vertical walls. Also, two ventilation ports are at the bottom and on top of the opposite wall. A forced flow condition was imposed by providing an inlet of air at the bottom port. A Mach–Zehnder interferometer was used to visualize the temperature field within the enclosure and to determine the local and average heat transfer characteristics of the heat source. Five heater positions on the vertical wall and different Rayleigh numbers (4.5 × 10⁵ to 1.15 × 10⁶) and Reynolds numbers (120 to 1600) were considered in the experiments. A finite volume code has been developed based on the SIMPLE algorithm and hybrid discretization scheme for the numerical study. It is observed that the interaction of natural convection with the forced flow leads to various flow fields depending on the Richardson number, Reynolds number and the heater position. Also, results show different trends for variation of the average Nusselt number with the heater position at low and high Reynolds numbers. An optimum position for the heat source, at which the maximum heat transfer is achieved, exists for high Reynolds numbers and has been found to be at the middle of the vertical wall.     

垂直环管内旋流换热与流动的数值模拟研究

基于垂直环管内旋流对流动边界层的扰动机理,采用数值模拟的方法研究了叶片角度、雷诺数以及进口水温对管内换热以及流动特性的影响,揭示了重力对环管内旋流流动的内在影响机制。结果表明：与水平环管相比,垂直环管的综合换热性能变化平缓,主要受到重力对压降的影响;与雷诺数相比,叶片角度对流场以及温度场的影响最显著;在雷诺数小于15 000,叶片角度为30°时管内的换热性能最佳。     

Experimental study on heat transfer enhancement of wavy finned flat tube with longitudinal vortex generators

The performance of direct air-cooled condensers in power plant is affected significantly by air-side flow and heat transfer characteristics of the wavy finned flat tube. Experimental investigations were conducted for air-side flow and heat transfer with and without delta winglet pairs punched on the surface of the wavy fin. The different temperature fields of the heated wavy fin surface with and without delta winglet pairs were obtained by the infrared thermography technology. Both experiments and numerical simulations showed that a substantial increase in the heat transfer with six delta winglet pair generators on the wavy fin was obtained with the Reynolds number varying from 1500 to 4500, which was the range of the air flow in practical direct air-cooled condensers. The average Nusselt number increased by 21–60% with the Reynolds number varying from 1500 to 4500 and the average friction factor increased by 13–83% with the Reynolds number varying from 500 to 4500 in experiments. The average performance evaluation criteria, PEC, can be up to 1.31 with six delta winglet pairs punched on the wavy fin surface, indicating the high potential of heat transfer enhancement to direct air-cooled condensers by longitudinal vortex generators.     

Exergy transfer characteristics of forced convective heat transfer through a duct with constant wall temperature

The exergy transfer characteristics of fluid flow and heat transfer inside a circular duct under fully developed laminar and turbulent forced convection are presented. Temperature is kept constant at the duct wall. The exergy transfer Nusselt number is put forward and the analytical expressions for exergy transfer Nusselt number are obtained as functions of heat transfer Nusselt number, Reynolds number, Prandtl number, etc. The variations of the local and mean convective exergy transfer coefficient, non-dimensional exergy flux, exergy transfer rate, etc. with operating parameters are presented graphically. By reference to a smooth duct and taking air as working fluid, a numerical analysis of the influence of the Reynolds number and non-dimensional cross-sectional position on exergy transfer characteristics has been conducted. The results show that the process parameters and configuration in the fluid flow and heat transfer inside a duct should be properly selected so that the forced convection process could have the best exergy utilization. In addition, the results corresponding to the exergy transfer and energy transfer are compared.     

高实度菱形扰流柱冷却通道的传热及流动特性研究

采用数值模拟的方法对高实度(45%)菱形扰流柱在恒定通道和收敛通道内的传热及流动特性进行三维数值模拟研究,分析了不同雷诺数下两种通道内的传热及压力损失。研究结果表明:随着雷诺数的增加,恒定通道和收敛通道传热效果均增强,两种通道内的流动阻力损失也减小,但减小的趋势逐渐降低;在相同雷诺数下,收敛通道内扰流柱的表面尤其是背风面能够被有效冷却;恒定通道的压力损失变化平缓且呈线性分布,而收敛通道内的压力损失存在急剧增大区域。