Mass Transfer, Flow, and Heat Transfer About a Rotating Disk

1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Sparrow ◽  
J. L. Gregg

The effects of mass injection or removal at the surface of a rotating disk on heat transfer and on the flow field about the disk are studied. Consideration is given to gaseous systems which are composed of either one or two component gases. Solutions of the equations which govern the hydrodynamics, energy transfer, and mass diffusion have been obtained over the entire range from large suction velocities to large blowing velocities. Results are given for the velocity, temperature, and mass-fraction distributions, as well as for the heat-transfer, mass-transfer, and torque requirements. The effects of the mass transfer are discussed in detail. It is shown that fluid injection sharply decreases the heat transfer at the surface.

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kh. Abdul Maleque

Considering the importance of mass transfer in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) convective flow, a numerical solution is obtained for a steady three-dimensional MHD convective mass transfer flow in an incompressible fluid due to a rotating disk with thermal diffusion. The governing partial differential equations of the MHD convective mass transfer flow are reduced to nonlinear ordinary differential equations by introducing suitable similarity transformations. The nonlinear similarity equations are then solved numerically by Nachtsheim–Swigert iteration technique. The results of the numerical solution are then presented graphically in the form of velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles. The corresponding skin-friction coefficients, the Nusselt number, and the Sherwood number are also calculated and displayed in tables showing the effects of various parameters on them. A good comparison between the present numerical predictions and the previously published data (Sparrow, and Gregg, 1959, “Heat Transfer From a Rotating Disk to Fluids of Any Prandtl Number,” ASME J. Heat Transfer, 8, pp. 249–251; Benton, 1966, “On the Flow Due to a Rotating Disc,” J. Fluid Mech., 24, pp. 781–800) has been achieved.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1146-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Nayak ◽  
Rashid Mehmood ◽  
O. D. Makinde ◽  
O. Mahian ◽  
Ali J. Chamkha

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 658
Author(s):  
Hao Ma ◽  
Zhipeng Duan

Modeling fluid flows is a general procedure to handle engineering problems. Here we present a systematic study of the flow and heat transfer around a circular cylinder by introducing a new representative appropriate drag coefficient concept. We demonstrate that the new modified drag coefficient may be a preferable dimensionless parameter to describe more appropriately the fluid flow physical behavior. A break in symmetry in the global structure of the entire flow field increases the difficulty of predicting heat and mass transfer behavior. A general simple drag model with high accuracy is further developed over the entire range of Reynolds numbers met in practice. In addition, we observe that there may exist an inherent relation between the drag and heat and mass transfer. A simple analogy model is established to predict heat transfer behavior from the cylinder drag data. This finding provides great insight into the underlying physical mechanism.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Pilbrow ◽  
H. Karabay ◽  
M. Wilson ◽  
J. M. Owen

In most gas turbines, blade-cooling air is supplied from stationary preswirl nozzles that swirl the air in the direction of rotation of the turbine disk. In the “cover-plate” system, the preswirl nozzles are located radially inward of the blade-cooling holes in the disk, and the swirling airflows radially outward in the cavity between the disk and a cover-plate attached to it. In this combined computational and experimental paper, an axisymmetric elliptic solver, incorporating the Launder–Sharma and the Morse low-Reynolds-number k–ε turbulence models, is used to compute the flow and heat transfer. The computed Nusselt numbers for the heated “turbine disk” are compared with measured values obtained from a rotating-disk rig. Comparisons are presented, for a wide range of coolant flow rates, for rotational Reynolds numbers in the range 0.5 X 106 to 1.5 X 106, and for 0.9 < βp < 3.1, where βp is the preswirl ratio (or ratio of the tangential component of velocity of the cooling air at inlet to the system to that of the disk). Agreement between the computed and measured Nusselt numbers is reasonably good, particularly at the larger Reynolds numbers. A simplified numerical simulation is also conducted to show the effect of the swirl ratio and the other flow parameters on the flow and heat transfer in the cover-plate system.


2015 ◽  
Vol 733 ◽  
pp. 599-602
Author(s):  
Lei Cao ◽  
Guo Chang Zhao ◽  
Li Ping Song ◽  
Tian Dong Lu

Flat grooved heat pipes, which are especially useful in obtaining a high degree of temperature uniformity on flat surfaces, have been successfully used in the temperature control of electronic systems, however, the mechanisms governing the flow and heat transfer of this kind of heat pipes are still under scrutiny as some reported results cannot be reproduced by others or some assumptions have been proven to be unreasonable or ideal. The theoretical and experimental studies on flat grooved heat pipes and introduce work performed on modeling flat grooved heat pipes are reviewed in this paper.


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