An Experimental Study on Heat Transfer Around Two Side-by-Side Closely Arranged Circular Cylinders

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki Tsutsui

The present paper describes heat transfer around two side-by-side closely arranged circular cylinders. The flows around two circular cylinders in a side-by-side arrangement can be classified into three flow patterns according to the gap between the two cylinders. The heat transfer characteristics of the cylinders in each flow regime were experimentally investigated. The diameter of the circular cylinders was 40 mm and the gap between the two cylinders varied from 4 mm to 40 mm. The free stream velocity ranged from 4 m/s to 24 m/s, resulting in Reynolds nos. ranging from 1.1×104 to 6.2×104. The local heat transfer coefficient of both cylinders was measured. The overall Nusselt no. of the two cylinders was found to be minimum at G/D(=gap/diameter)=0.4, which is the minimum drag coefficient condition of the two cylinders, too.

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Ligrani ◽  
A. Ortiz ◽  
S. L. Joseph ◽  
D. L. Evans

Heat transfer effects of longitudinal vortices embedded within film-cooled turbulent boundary layers on a flat plate were examined for free-stream velocities of 10 m/s and 15 m/s. A single row of film-cooling holes was employed with blowing ratios ranging from 0.47 to 0.98. Moderate-strength vortices were used with circulating-to-free stream velocity ratios of −0.95 to −1.10 cm. Spatially resolved heat transfer measurements from a constant heat flux surface show that film coolant is greatly disturbed and that local Stanton numbers are altered significantly by embedded longitudinal vortices. Near the downwash side of the vortex, heat transfer is augmented, vortex effects dominate flow behavior, and the protection from film cooling is minimized. Near the upwash side of the vortex, coolant is pushed to the side of the vortex, locally increasing the protection provided by film cooling. In addition, local heat transfer distributions change significantly as the spanwise location of the vortex is changed relative to film-cooling hole locations.


1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Brown ◽  
R. C. Burton

This paper describes a novel method for measuring the local heat-transfer distribution over a curved surface. The effect of free-stream turbulence intensity, ranging in value from 0.016 to 0.092, on local heat transfer is investigated for a range of Reynolds numbers from 2.0 × 105 to 7.7 × 105. The geometry of the rig was modified to consider three free-stream velocity distributions covering distributions currently in use on suction surfaces of turbine blades. The results are compared with other workers’ experimental results and with available prediction techniques for heat transfer in laminar and turbulent boundary layers. Special attention is paid to the region of boundary-layer transition.


1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. A. Wang

A heated flat plate is tested in a wind tunnel to study mixed convection in both upward and downward positions. It is found that the local heat transfer coefficient is strongly dependent on the free stream velocity and the temperature difference between the surface and the free stream. The buoyancy effect is more pronounced for the heated plate facing upward. This paper correlates the experimental data in terms of Nusselt, Grashof, and Reynolds numbers. The points of onset of instability caused by the buoyancy effect are also examined and correlated in terms of the dimensionless groups. Experimental data are compared with analysis documented in the literature, and the agreement is found satisfactory.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong-Yeon Yoo ◽  
Jong-Hark Park ◽  
Min-Ho Chung

When heat is released by forced convection from electronic modules in a narrow printed circuit board channel, complex flow phenomena—such as stagnation and acceleration on the front surface, separation and reattachment on the top surface, wake or cavity flow near the rear surface—affect the heat transfer characteristics. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these flow conditions influence the local heat transfer from electronic modules. Experiments are performed on a three-dimensional array of hexahedral elements as well as on a two-dimensional array of rectangular elements. Naphthalene sublimation technique is employed to measure three-dimensional local mass transfer, and the mass transfer data are converted to their counterparts of the heat transfer process using the analogy equation between heat and mass transfer. Module location and streamwise module spacing are varied, and the effect of vortex generators on heat transfer enhancement is also examined. Dramatic change of local heat transfer coefficients is found on each surface of the module, and three-dimensional modules have a little higher heat transfer value than two-dimensional modules because of bypass flow. Longitudinal vortices formed by vortex generator enhance the mixing of fluids and thereby heat transfer, and the rectangular wing type vortex generator is found to be more effective than the delta wing type vortex generator.


Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Li ◽  
Zhenqun Wu ◽  
Huibo Wang ◽  
Hui Jin

Abstract In the supercritical water (SCW)-particle two-phase flow of fluidized bed, the particles that make up the particle cluster interact with each other through fluid, and it will affect the flow and heat transfer. However, due to the complex properties of SCW, the research on particle cluster is lacking, especially in terms of heat transfer. This research takes two particles as an example to study the heat transfer characteristics between SCW and another particle when one particle exists. This research uses the distance and angle between the two particles as the influencing factors to study the average heat transfer rate and local heat transfer rate. In this research, it is found that the effect is obvious when L/D = 1.1. When L = 1.1D, the temperature field and the flow field will partially overlap. The overlap of the temperature field will weaken the heat transfer between SCW and the particle. The overlap of the flow field has an enhanced effect on the heat transfer between SCW and the particle. The heat transfer between SCW and particles is simultaneously affected by these two effects, especially local heat transfer rate. In addition, this research also found that as the SCW temperature decreases, the thermal conductivity and specific heat of SCW increases, which enhances the heat transfer between SCW and the particles. This research is of great significance for studying the heat transfer characteristics of SCW-particle two-phase flow in fluidized bed.


1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Newman ◽  
E. M. Sparrow ◽  
E. R. G. Eckert

Experiments involving both heat-transfer and turbulence-field measurements were performed to determine the influence of free-stream turbulence on the local heat transfer from a sphere situated in a forced-convection airflow. The research was facilitated by a miniature heat-flux sensor which could be positioned at any circumferential location on the equator of the sphere. Turbulence grids were employed to generate free-stream turbulence with intensities of up to 9.4 percent. The Reynolds-number range of the experiments was from 20,000 to 62,000. The results indicate that the local heat flux in the forward region of the sphere is uninfluenced by free-stream turbulence levels of up to about 5 percent. For higher turbulence levels, the heat-flux increases with the turbulence intensity, the greatest heat-flux augmentation found here being about 15 percent. Furthermore, at the higher turbulence intensities, there appears to be a departure from the half-power Reynolds-number dependence of the stagnation-point Nusselt number. Turbulent separation occurred at Reynolds numbers of 42,000 and 62,000 for a turbulence level of 9.4 percent, these values being well below the transition Reynolds number of 2 × 105 for a sphere situated in a low-turbulence flow.


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