Heat Transfer With Insulated Combustion Chamber Walls and Its Influence on the Performance of Diesel Engines

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Woschni ◽  
W. Spindler

Recently great expectations were put into the insulation of combustion chamber walls. A considerable reduction in fuel consumption, a marked reduction of the heat flow to the cooling water, and a significant increase of exhaust gas energy were predicted. In the meantime there exists an increasing number of publications reporting on significant increase of fuel consumption with total or partial insulation of the combustion chamber walls. In [1] a physical explanation of this effect is given: Simultaneously with the decrease of the temperature difference between gas and wall as a result of insulation, the heat transfer coefficient between gas and wall increases rapidly due to increasing wall temperature, thus overcompensating for the decrease in temperature difference between gas and wall. Hence a modified equation for calculation of the heat transfer coefficient was presented [1]. In the paper to be presented here, recent experimental results are reported that confirm the effects demonstrated in [1], including the influence of the heat transfer coefficient, which depends on the wall temperature, on the performance of naturally aspirated and turbocharged engines.

Author(s):  
Anders Jerhamre ◽  
Lars-Erik Eriksson

In rotating cavities the driving temperature difference for heat transfer is not easy to define or estimate. Traditionally, some reference temperature, here called bulk temperature, is used. This bulk temperature is closely connected to the heat transfer coefficient. In order to determine these characteristics, the assumption that the wall heat flux is linearly proportional to the temperature difference between wall and inlet air, is used. The slope is equal to the heat transfer coefficient and the x-intercept gives the difference between bulk temperature and inlet temperature. The validity of this assumption is thoroughly investigated by solving the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations for compressible, axisymmetric flow with a low Reynolds number k-ϵ-model. Rotational and buoyancy effects, which may introduce a non-linear relationship and also affect the local bulk temperature, are all taken into account in the CFD model. Three different cases were investigated: one simple corotating disk cavity; one simple rotor-stator cavity, and finally one real engine application cavity. The rotational Reynolds numbers, mass flow rates and temperature differences were varied. Results indicate that the Linear assumption is valid for a range of wall temperatures but not for regions where the local wall temperature affects the flow field, e.g. in corners. Furthermore, when the flow field undergoes a drastic change, new heat transfer characteristics must be determined, or be used with care. Since the heat transfer coefficient and bulk temperature are uniquely determined by the flow field, and not by the local wall temperature, it is not necessary to make a coupled, continuous calculation of the flow field and thermal distribution in the structure.


2014 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Laveau ◽  
Reza S. Abhari ◽  
Michael E. Crawford ◽  
Ewald Lutum

In order to continue increasing the efficiency of gas turbines, an important effort is made on the thermal management of the turbine stage. In particular, understanding and accurately estimating the thermal loads in a vane passage is of primary interest to engine designers looking to optimize the cooling requirements and ensure the integrity of the components. This paper focuses on the measurement of endwall heat transfer in a vane passage with a three-dimensional (3D) airfoil shape and cylindrical endwalls. It also presents a comparison with predictions performed using an in-house developed Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) solver featuring a specific treatment of the numerical smoothing using a flow adaptive scheme. The measurements have been performed in a steady state axial turbine facility on a novel platform developed for heat transfer measurements and integrated to the nozzle guide vane (NGV) row of the turbine. A quasi-isothermal boundary condition is used to obtain both the heat transfer coefficient and the adiabatic wall temperature within a single measurement day. The surface temperature is measured using infrared thermography through small view ports. The infrared camera is mounted on a robot arm with six degrees of freedom to provide high resolution surface temperature and a full coverage of the vane passage. The paper presents results from experiments with two different flow conditions obtained by varying the mass flow through the turbine: measurements at the design point (ReCax=7.2×105) and at a reduced mass flow rate (ReCax=5.2×105). The heat transfer quantities, namely the heat transfer coefficient and the adiabatic wall temperature, are derived from measurements at 14 different isothermal temperatures. The experimental data are supplemented with numerical predictions that are deduced from a set of adiabatic and diabatic simulations. In addition, the predicted flow field in the passage is used to highlight the link between the heat transfer patterns measured and the vortical structures present in the passage.


2013 ◽  
Vol 441 ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Jiang Liu ◽  
Fang Han

In order to study the effect on heat transfer performance of evaporator in the gravity feed liquid refrigeration system the different evaporator area, the simulation procedure is worked out. The procedure uses the visual basic language. The procedure can figure out the heat transfer coefficient and the temperature difference in different evaporator area and evaporating temperature with the required refrigerating capacity. Through simulation calculation, when the area is 80% of the original design area of evaporator, the evaporator of the heat transfer coefficient and heat transfer temperature difference is the most reasonable and the evaporator of the refrigerating capacity can meet the requirements of cold storage. The program provides the reliable data for the gravity feed liquid cooling system optimization.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 878-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Haji-Sheikh ◽  
M. Mashena ◽  
M. J. Haji-Sheikh

An analytical method for the numerical calculation of the heat transfer coefficient in arbitrarily shaped ducts with constant wall temperature at the boundary is presented. The flow is considered to be laminar and fully developed, both thermally and hydrodynamically. The method presented herein makes use of Galerkin-type functions for computation of the Nusselt number. This method is applied to circular pipes and ducts with rectangular, isosceles triangular, and right triangular cross sections. A three-term or even a two-term solution yields accurate solutions for circular ducts. The situation is similar for right triangular ducts with two equal sides. However, for narrower ducts, a larger number of terms must be used.


1960 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-284
Author(s):  
J. S. Przemieniecki

SummaryA set of design charts is presented for the calculation of transient temperature and thermal stress distributions in thermally thick plates subjected to aerodynamic heating.The method is particularly useful for determining temperatures and thermal stresses in plates with an arbitrary variation of the heat transfer coefficient and the adiabatic wall temperature of the boundary layer. The present method is based on repetitive applications of the exact analytical solution to a unit triangular variation of the adiabatic wall temperature and a constant heat transfer coefficient. The actual variation of the adiabatic wall temperature is represented as a series of straight lines while the heat transfer coefficient is approximated by a step function. The temperature distribution through the plate is separated into linear and “self-equilibrating” temperature distributions to facilitate thermal stress calculations; these distributions can be obtained directly from the design charts presented in this paper.The general principle of this semi-numerical method is also applied to thermally thin plates subjected to arbitrary heating conditions.


Author(s):  
Benoit Laveau ◽  
Reza S. Abhari ◽  
Michael E. Crawford ◽  
Ewald Lutum

In order to continue increasing the efficiency of gas turbines, an important effort is made on the thermal management of the turbine stage. In particular understanding and accurately estimating the thermal loads in a vane passage is of primary interest to engine designers looking to optimize the cooling requirements and ensure the integrity of the components. This paper focuses on the measurement of endwall heat transfer in a vane passage with a 3D airfoil shape and cylindrical endwalls. It also presents a comparison with predictions performed using an in-house developed RANS solver featuring a specific treatment of the numerical smoothing using a flow adaptive scheme. The measurements have been performed in a steady state axial turbine facility on a novel platform developed for heat transfer measurements and integrated to the nozzle guide vane row of the turbine. A quasi-isothermal boundary condition is used to obtain both the heat transfer coefficient and the adiabatic wall temperature within a single measurement day. The surface temperature is measured using infrared thermography through small view ports. The infrared camera is mounted on a robot-arm with six degrees of freedom to provide high resolution surface temperature and a full coverage of the vane passage. The paper presents results from experiments with two different flow conditions obtained by varying the mass flow through the turbine: measurements at the design point (ReCax = 7,2.105) and at a reduced mass flow rate (ReCax = 5,2.105). The heat transfer quantities, namely the heat transfer coefficient and the adiabatic wall temperature, are derived from measurements at 14 different isothermal temperatures. The experimental data are supplemented with numerical predictions that are deduced from a set of adiabatic and diabatic simulations. In addition, the predicted flow field in the passage is used to highlight the link between the heat transfer patterns measured and the vortical structures present in the passage.


2014 ◽  
Vol 494-495 ◽  
pp. 285-288
Author(s):  
Ji Tian Song ◽  
Xiao Fei Xu ◽  
Wei Tian ◽  
Jian Bo Liu ◽  
Zheng Zhao

In this paper, the heat transfer of pineapple juice was investigated on a new evaporator with ultrasound. The effects of various factors on the heat transfer coefficient were analyzed, including feed rate, evaporating temperature, temperature difference of heat transfer, and juice concentration. The proposals of design and operation for this new evaporation were also discussed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 2577-2580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Fan Zheng ◽  
Jing Bai ◽  
Jing Wei ◽  
Lan Yu Huang

Based on the EES software, a heat transfer coefficient calculation program about double pipe heat exchanges is established. Some experimental data are compared to the simulation data for proving that the program can predict the heat transfer coefficient of the double pipe heat exchangers, and then the change of heat transfer coefficient is calculated and analyzed with relevant parameters. The results show that the heat transfer coefficient of heat exchanger are increasing with the flow of the shell side, the tube side and the logarithmic mean temperature difference, and when the temperature difference equals to 12°C, the total heat transfer coefficient can up to 2400W/m2.K or so.


Author(s):  
X. C. Li ◽  
J. Zhou ◽  
K. Aung

One of the most fundamental concepts in heat transfer is the convective heat transfer coefficient, which is closely related with the flow Reynolds number, flow geometry and the thermal conditions on the heat transfer surface. To define the heat transfer coefficient, a reference temperature is needed besides the surface temperature and heat flux. The reference temperature can be chosen differently, such as the fluid bulk mean temperature (for internal flows) and the temperature at the far field (for external flows). For complicated flows, the adiabatic wall temperature, defined as the wall temperature when the surface heat flux is zero, is commonly adopted as the reference temperature. Other options can also be applied to complicated flows. This paper analyzed some of the potential selections of the reference temperature for different flow settings, including film cooling, jet impingement with cross flows and a mixing flow in a straight duct with or without internal heat source. Both laminar and turbulent flows are considered with different boundary conditions. Dramatic changes of heat transfer coefficient are observed with different reference temperatures. In some special conditions the heat transfer coefficient becomes negative, which means the heat flux has a different direction with the driving temperature difference defined. An innovative method is proposed to calculate the heat transfer coefficient of complicated flows with constant surface temperature.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Chambers ◽  
David R. H. Gillespie ◽  
Peter T. Ireland ◽  
Geoffrey M. Dailey

Transient liquid crystal techniques are widely used for experimental heat transfer measurements. In many instances it is necessary to model the heat transfer resulting from the temperature difference between a mixture of two gas streams and a solid surface. To nondimensionally characterize the heat transfer from scale models it is necessary to know both the heat transfer coefficient and adiabatic wall temperature of the model. Traditional techniques rely on deducing both parameters from a single test. This is a poorly conditioned problem. A novel strategy is proposed in which both parameters are deduced from a well-conditioned three-test strategy. The heat transfer coefficient is first calculated in a single test; the contribution from each driving gas stream is then deduced using additional tests. Analytical techniques are developed to deal with variations in the temperature profile and transient start time of each flow. The technique is applied to the analysis of the heat transfer within a low aspect ratio impingement channel with initial cross flow.


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