Heat Transfer to Curved Surfaces from Heat Generating Pools

1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Gabor ◽  
L. Baker ◽  
J. C. Cassulo ◽  
D. J. Erskine ◽  
J. G. Warner

Experiments were conducted on heat transfer from internally heated ZnSO4-H2O pools to curved surfaces. These experiments extended existing data for nonboiling pools to higher Rayleigh numbers. The data for convective downward heat transfer from nonboiling pools to a curved surface were reasonably close to the Mayinger correlation extrapolated to higher Rayleigh numbers and lower ratios of pool depth to radius of curvature. Sideward heat transfer to a surface could be described by Nu = 0.7 Ra0.2. Insulating the upper pool surface from the atmosphere had no effect on either sideward or downward heat transfer. An investigation was also made on effects of curvature on heat transfer from boiling pools. Nusselt numbers for sideward heat transfer were proportional to a boiling Reynolds number based on superficial vapor velocity to the 0.275 power and quite close to the correlation for a pool with flat vertical walls. Downward boiling heat transfer to a curved surface was proportional to the Reynolds number to the 0.1 power.

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 560-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Zhang ◽  
J. Chiou ◽  
S. Fann ◽  
W.-J. Yang

Experiments are performed to determine the local heat transfer performance in a rotating serpentine passage with rib-roughened surfaces. The ribs are placed on the trailing and leading walls in a corresponding posited arrangement with an angle of attack of 90 deg. The rib height-to-hydraulic diameter ratio, e/Dh, is 0.0787 and the rib pitch-to-height ratio, s/e, is 11. The throughflow Reynolds number is varied, typically at 23,000, 47,000, and 70,000 in the passage both at rest and in rotation. In the rotation cases, the rotation number is varied from 0.023 to 0.0594. Results for the rib-roughened serpentine passages are compared with those of smooth ones in the literature. Comparison is also made on results for the rib-roughened passages between the stationary and rotating cases. It is disclosed that a significant enhancement is achieved in the heat transfer in both the stationary and rotating cases resulting from an installation of the ribs. Both the rotation and Rayleigh numbers play important roles in the heat transfer performance on both the trailing and leading walls. Although the Reynolds number strongly influences the Nusselt numbers in the rib-roughened passage of both the stationary and rotating cases, Nuo and Nu, respectively, it has little effect on their ratio Nu/Nuo.


1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Hedlund ◽  
P. M. Ligrani

Local flow behavior and heat transfer results are presented from two swirl chambers, which model passages used to cool the leading edges of turbine blades in gas turbine engines. Flow results are obtained in an isothermal swirl chamber. Surface Nusselt number distributions are measured in a second swirl chamber (with a constant wall heat flux boundary condition) using infrared thermography in conjunction with thermocouples, energy balances, and in situ calibration procedures. In both cases, Reynolds numbers Re based on inlet duct characteristics range from 6000 to about 20,000. Bulk helical flow is produced in each chamber by two inlets, which are tangent to the swirl chamber circumference. Important changes to local and globally averaged surface Nusselt numbers, instantaneous flow structure from flow visualizations, and distributions of static pressure, total pressure, and circumferential velocity are observed throughout the swirl chambers as the Reynolds number increases. Of particular importance are increases of local surface Nusselt numbers (as well as ones globally averaged over the entire swirl chamber surface) with increasing Reynolds number. These are tied to increased advection, as well as important changes to vortex characteristics near the concave surfaces of the swirl chambers. Higher Re also give larger axial components of velocity, and increased turning of the flow from each inlet, which gives Go¨rtler vortex pair trajectories greater skewness as they are advected downstream of each inlet. [S0889-504X(00)00502-X]


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahyar Pourghasemi ◽  
Nima Fathi

Abstract 3-D numerical simulations are performed to investigate liquid sodium (Na) flow and the heat transfer within miniature heat sinks with different geometries and hydraulic diameters of less than 5 mm. Two different straight small-scale heat sinks with rectangular and triangular cross-sections are studied in the laminar flow with the Reynolds number up to 1900. The local and average Nusselt numbers are obtained and compared against eachother. At the same surface area to volume ratio, rectangular minichannel heat sink leads to almost 280% higher convective heat transfer rate in comparison with triangular heat sink. It is observed that the difference between thermal efficiencies of rectangular and triangular minichannel heat sinks was independent of flow Reynolds number.


Author(s):  
C. R. Hedlund ◽  
P. M. Ligrani

Local flow behavior and heat transfer results are presented from two swirl chambers, which model passages used to cool the leading edges of turbine blades in gas turbine engines. Flow results are obtained in an isothermal swirl chamber. Surface Nusselt number distributions are measured in a second swirl chamber (with a constant wall beat flux boundary condition) using infrared thermography, in conjunction with thermocouples, energy balances, and in situ calibration procedures. In both cases, Reynolds numbers Re based on inlet duct characteristics range from 6000 to about 20000. Bulk helical flow is produced in each chamber by two inlets which ore tangent to the swirl chamber circumference. Important changes to local and globally-averaged surface Nusselt numbers, instantaneous flow structure from flow visualizations, and distributions of static pressure, total pressure, and circumferential velocity are observed throughout the swirl chambers as the Reynolds number increases. Of particular importance are increases of local surface Nusselt numbers (as well as ones globally-averaged over the entire swirl chamber surface) with increasing Reynolds number. These are tiad to increased advection, as well as important changes to vortex characteristics near the concave surfaces of the swirl chambers. Higher Re also give larger axial components of velocity, and increased turning of the flow from each inlet, which gives Görtler vnrtex pair trajectories greater skewness as they are advected downstream of each inlet.


Author(s):  
Zhong Ren ◽  
Sneha Reddy Vanga ◽  
Nathan Rogers ◽  
Phil Ligrani ◽  
Keith Hollingsworth ◽  
...  

The present study provides new heat transfer data for both the surfaces of the full coverage effusion cooling plate within a double wall cooling test facility. To produce the cooling stream, a cold-side cross-flow supply for the effusion hole array is employed. Also utilized is a unique mainstream mesh heater, which provides transient thermal boundary conditions, after mainstream flow conditions are established. For the effusion cooled surface, presented are spatially-resolved distributions of surface adiabatic film cooling effectiveness, and surface heat transfer coefficients (measured using infrared thermography). For the coolant side, presented are spatially-resolved distributions of surface Nusselt numbers (measured using liquid crystal thermography). Of interest are the effects of streamwise development, blowing ratio, and Reynolds number. Streamwise hole spacing and spanwise hole spacing (normalized by effusion hole diameter) on the effusion plate are 15 and 4, respectively. Effusion hole diameter is 6.35 mm, effusion hole angle is 25 degrees, and effusion plate thickness is 3 hole diameters. Considered are overall effusion blowing ratios from 2.9 to 7.5, with subsonic, incompressible flow, and constant freestream velocity with streamwise development, for two different mainstream Reynolds numbers. For the hot side (mainstream) of the effusion film cooling test plate, results for two mainflow Reynolds numbers of about 145000 and 96000 show that the adiabatic cooling effectiveness is generally higher for the lower Reynolds number for a particular streamwise location and blowing ratio. The heat transfer coefficient is generally higher for the low Reynolds number flow. This is due to altered supply passage flow behavior, which causes a reduction in coolant lift-off of the film from the surface as coolant momentum, relative to mainstream momentum, decreases. For the coolant side of the effusion test plate, Nusselt numbers generally increase with blowing ratio, when compared at a particular streamwise location and mainflow Reynolds number.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Abdelkrim Bouras ◽  
Djedid Taloub ◽  
Zied Driss

AbstractThis paper deals with numerical investigation of a natural convective flow in a horizontal annular space between a heated square inner cylinder and a cold elliptical outer cylinder with a Newtonian fluid. Uniform temperatures are imposed along walls of the enclosure. The governing equations of the problem were solved numerically by the commercial code Fluent, based on the finite volume method and the Boussinesq approximation. The effects of Geometry Ratio GR and Rayleigh numbers on fluid flow and heat transfer performance are investigated. The Rayleigh number is varied from 103 to 106. Throughout the study the relevant results are presented in terms of isotherms, and streamlines. From the results, we found that the increase in the Geometry Ratio B leads to an increase of the heat transfer coefficient. The heat transfer rate in the annulus is translated in terms of the average Nusselt numbers along the enclosure’s sides. Tecplot 7 program was used to plot the curves which cleared these relations and isotherms and streamlines which illustrate the behavior of air through the channel and its variation with other parameters. The results for the streamlines, isotherms, local and average Nusselt numbers average Nusselt numbers are compared with previous works and show good agreement.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Ligrani ◽  
G. I. Mahmood

Spatially resolved Nusselt numbers, spatially averaged Nusselt numbers, and friction factors are presented for a stationary channel with an aspect ratio of 4 and angled rib turbulators inclined at 45 deg with perpendicular orientations on two opposite surfaces. Results are given at different Reynolds numbers based on channel height from 10,000 to 83,700. The ratio of rib height to hydraulic diameter is .078, the rib pitch-to-height ratio is 10, and the blockage provided by the ribs is 25% of the channel cross-sectional area. Nusselt numbers are given both with and without three-dimensional conduction considered within the acrylic test surface. In both cases, spatially resolved local Nusselt numbers are highest on tops of the rib turbulators, with lower magnitudes on flat surfaces between the ribs, where regions of flow separation and shear layer reattachment have pronounced influences on local surface heat transfer behavior. The augmented local and spatially averaged Nusselt number ratios (rib turbulator Nusselt numbers normalized by values measured in a smooth channel) vary locally on the rib tops as Reynolds number increases. Nusselt number ratios decrease on the flat regions away from the ribs, especially at locations just downstream of the ribs, as Reynolds number increases. When adjusted to account for conduction along and within the test surface, Nusselt number ratios show different quantitative variations (with location along the test surface), compared to variations when no conduction is included. Changes include: (i) decreased local Nusselt number ratios along the central part of each rib top surface as heat transfer from the sides of each rib becomes larger, and (ii) Nusselt number ratio decreases near corners, where each rib joins the flat part of the test surface, especially on the downstream side of each rib. With no conduction along and within the test surface (and variable heat flux assumed into the air stream), globally-averaged Nusselt number ratios vary from 2.92 to 1.64 as Reynolds number increases from 10,000 to 83,700. Corresponding thermal performance parameters also decrease as Reynolds number increases over this range, with values in approximate agreement with data measured by other investigators in a square channel also with 45 deg oriented ribs.


Author(s):  
L. K. Liu ◽  
M. C. Wu ◽  
C. J. Fang ◽  
Y. H. Hung

A series of experimental investigations with stringent measurement methods on the studies related to mixed convection from the horizontally confined extended surfaces with a slot jet impingement have been successfully conducted. The relevant parameters influencing mixed convection performance due to jet impingement and buoyancy include the Grashof number, ratio of jet separation distance to nozzle width, ratio of extended surfaces height to nozzle width and jet Reynolds number. The range of these parameters studied are Grs = 3.77 × 105 – 1.84 × 106, H/W = 1–10, Hs/W = 0.74–3.40 and Re = 63–1383. In the study, the heat transfer behavior on the extended surfaces with confined slot jet impingement such as the temperature distribution, local and average Nusselt numbers on the extended surfaces has been systematically explored. The results manifest that the effect of steady-state Grashof number on heat transfer behavior such as stagnation, local and average Nusselt number is not significant; while the heat transfer performance increases with decreasing jet separation distance or with increasing extended surface height and jet Reynolds number. Besides, two new correlations of local and average Nusselt numbers in terms of H/W, Hs/W and Re are proposed for the cases of extended surfaces. A satisfactory agreement is achieved between the results predicted by these correlations and the experimental data. Finally, a complete composite correlation of steady-state average Nusselt number for mixed convection due to jet impingement and buoyancy is proposed. The comparison of the predictions evaluated by this correlation with all the present experimental data is made. The maximum and average deviations of the predictions from the experimental data are 7.46% and 2.87%, respectively.


Author(s):  
Mustafa Gursoy ◽  
Mehmet Arik ◽  
Tunc Icoz ◽  
Michael Yovanovich ◽  
Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc

Natural convection over vertical plates is a very well known problem in heat transfer. There are many available correlations to predict Nusselt numbers for a wide range of Rayleigh numbers. These benchmark studies on natural convection for vertical plates were conducted on rather large surfaces leading to Rayleigh numbers in the range of 0.1 to 109. In natural convection the sole driving force of fluid motion is the change in fluid density, when the diffusive limit is small compared to convective heat transfer. However, conduction to air, as well as air entrainment from sides also contributes to the heat removal from heater surfaces. An experimental study has been carried out with small and large heaters compared to published data for 2×103<Ra<4×107. Square surfaces of 12.5 and 25.4 mm, and rectangular heaters of sizes 25.4×101.6 and 25.4×203.2 mm were tested for a range of heat inputs such that the surface temperatures are controlled between 30 °C and 80 °C. It is found that published correlations underpredict the Nusselt numbers as much as 20%. It is observed that widely known correlations underpredict the experimental values since the 3D conduction and side air drifts on heat transfer are not accounted for in these correlations. However, the cuboid model which includes the 3D diffusion term showed much better agreement with the experimental results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangyuan Liu ◽  
Junkui Mao ◽  
Chao Han ◽  
Yuanjian Liu ◽  
Xingsi Han ◽  
...  

Considering the complicated geometry in an active clearance control (ACC) system, the design of an improved cooling feed pipe with a covering plate for a high pressure ribbed turbine case was investigated. Numerical calculations were analyzed to obtain the interactions between the impinging jet arrays fed by the pipe. Experimental tests were performed to explore the effect of the Reynolds number (2000–20,000) and the jet-to-surface spacing ratio (6–10) on the streamwise-averaged Nusselt numbers. Additionally, the effect of the crossflow produced by the configuration was investigated. Results showed a confined curved channel was formed by the pipe and ribbed case, which resulted in crossflow. The crossflow evolved into vortices and the streamwise-averaged Nusselt number on the high ribs was subsequently increased. Furthermore, the distribution of the heat transfer on the entire surface became more uniform compared with that of traditional impinging jet arrays. A higher Nusselt number was achieved by decreasing the jet-to-surface spacing and increasing the Reynolds number. This investigation has revealed a cooling configuration for controlling the wall flow and evening the heat transfer on the case surface, especially for the ribs.


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