scholarly journals Closure to “Discussion of ‘An Analytical Investigation of Free Convection Heat Transfer to Supercritical Water’” (1971, ASME J. Heat Transfer, 93, pp. 319–320)

1971 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
E. S. Nowak ◽  
A. K. Konanur
1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. Nowak ◽  
A. K. Konanur

Heat transfer to supercritical water (at 3400 psia in the pseudocritical region) by stable laminar free convection from an isothermal, vertical flat plate was analytically investigated. The actual variations with temperature of all or some of the thermophysical properties of supercritical water were taken into consideration. Fair agreement was found between the analytical values of this paper and existing experimental data.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 559
Author(s):  
Janusz T. Cieśliński ◽  
Slawomir Smolen ◽  
Dorota Sawicka

The results of experimental investigation of free convection heat transfer in a rectangular container are presented. The ability of the commonly accepted correlation equations to reproduce present experimental data was tested as well. It was assumed that the examined geometry fulfils the requirement of no-interaction between heated cylinder and bounded surfaces. In order to check this assumption recently published correlation equations that jointly describe the dependence of the average Nusselt number on Rayleigh number and confinement ratios were examined. As a heat source served electrically heated horizontal tube immersed in an ambient fluid. Experiments were performed with pure ethylene glycol (EG), distilled water (W), and a mixture of EG and water at 50%/50% by volume. A set of empirical correlation equations for the prediction of Nu numbers for Rayleigh number range 3.6 × 104 < Ra < 9.2 × 105 or 3.6 × 105 < Raq < 14.8 × 106 and Pr number range 4.5 ≤ Pr ≤ 160 has been developed. The proposed correlation equations are based on two characteristic lengths, i.e., cylinder diameter and boundary layer length.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document