Turning Guide Vane Effect on Internal Cooling of Two-Passage Channel With Parallel Ribs

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandana S. Saravani ◽  
Ryoichi S. Amano ◽  
Nicholas J. DiPasquale ◽  
Joseph Wayne Halmo

Abstract The present work investigates the effects of various guide vane designs on the heat transfer enhancement of rotating U-duct configuration with parallel 45-deg ribs. The ribs were installed on the bottom wall of the channel, which has a constant heat flux boundary condition. The channel has a square cross section with a 5.08 cm hydraulic diameter. The first and second passes are 514 mm and 460 mm, respectively. The range of Reynolds number for turbulent flow is up to 35,000. The channel rotates at various speeds up to 600 rpm, which brings the maximum rotation number of 0.75. Several computational fluid dynamics simulations are carried out for this study to understand the effect of guide vanes on flow and heat transfer in serpentine channels under various operating conditions.

Author(s):  
Ryoichi S. Amano ◽  
Mandana S. Saravani ◽  
Nicholas DiPasquale

Abstract The present work investigates the effects of various guide vane designs on the heat transfer enhancement of rotating U-Duct configuration with parallel 45-deg ribs. The ribs were installed on the bottom wall of the channel which has a constant heat flux boundary condition. The channel has a square cross-section with a 5.08 cm (2 in) hydraulic diameter. The first and second passes are 514 mm and 460 mm, respectively. The range of Reynolds number for turbulent flow is up to 35,000. The channel rotates in various speed up to 600 rpm which brings the maximum rotation number of 0.75. Several computational fluid dynamics simulations are carried out for this study to understand the effect of guide vanes on flow and heat transfer in serpentine channels under various operating conditions.


Author(s):  
Ivan Otic

Abstract One important issue in understanding and modeling of turbulent heat transfer is the behavior of fluctuating temperature close to the wall. Common engineering computational approach assumes constant heat flux boundary condition on heated walls. In the present paper constant heat flux boundary condition was assumed and effects of temperature fluctuations are investigated using large eddy simulations (LES) approach. A series of large eddy simulations for two geometries is performed: First, forced convection in channels and second, forced convection over a backward facing step. LES simulation data is statistically analyzed and compared with results of direct numerical simulations (DNS) from the literature which apply three cases of heat flux boundary conditions: 1. ideal heat flux boundary condition, 2. non-ideal heat flux boundary condition, 3. conjugate heat transfer boundary condition. For low Prandtl number flows LES results show that, despite very good agreement for velocities and mean temperature, predictions of temperature fluctuations may have strong deficiencies if simplified boundary conditions are applied.


2020 ◽  
Vol 307 ◽  
pp. 01038
Author(s):  
Mohammed Zohud ◽  
Ahmed Ouadha ◽  
Redouane Benzeguir

The present paper aims to numerically investigate the flow, heat transfer and entropy generation of some hydrocarbon based nanorefrigerants flowing in a circular tube subject to constant heat flux boundary condition. Numerical tests have been performed for 4 types of nanoparticles, namely Al2O3, CuO, SiO2, and ZnO with a diameter equal to 30 nm and a volume concentration of φ = 5%. These nanoparticles are dispersed in some hydrocarbon-based refrigerants, namely tetrafluoroethane (R134a), propane (R290), butane (R600), isobutane (R600a) and propylene (R1270). Computations have been performed for Reynolds number ranging from 600 to 2200. The numerical results in terms of the average heat transfer coefficient of pure refrigerants have been compared to values obtained using correlations from the literature. The results show that the increase of the Reynolds number increases the heat transfer coefficient and decreases the total entropy generation.


Author(s):  
Dieter E. Bohn ◽  
Volker J. Becker ◽  
Agnes U. Rungen

This paper presents investigations of the development for a shower-head cooling configuration for a modern industrial turbine guide vane. One aim is to find suitable locations for cooling gas ejection with the lowest cooling gas mass flow possible. The investigations begin with a numerical experiment. After the prediction of a suitable configuration and operating parameters, the aerodynamics are investigated experimentally using a non-intrusive LDA technique. Once the aerodynamics had been validated, the numerical experiments were expanded to a thermal analysis of the vane. Our conjugate flow and heat transfer simulation enables thermal analysis of the vane body without us having to derive any heat transfer data beforehand. The calculations were performed for a temperature ratio of 0.5 between cooling gas and main stream. This temperature ratio is similar to the operating conditions found in current designs. The stagnation line moves under the influence of cooling gas ejection, which significantly influences the cooling gas distribution on the vane surface. The temperature distribution inside the vane is compared to a non-cooled test case. The simulation shows that the temperature peaks at the leading edge are reduced by between 18% and 44%.


1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Prusa ◽  
L. S. Yao

The melting of a solid about a heated cylinder presents an irregularly shaped, moving boundary problem. A transformation is used to immobilize this boundary—replacing the problem of variable geometry by one of constant geometry. A constant heat flux boundary condition is used along the cylinder surface. Using perturbation and numerical methods, several solutions for this transient problem are generated for Stefan, Rayleigh, and Prandtl numbers of Stq = 0.374, Ra = 5000, and Pr = 54. Stq is the ratio of heat transfer rate to the thermal energy needed to melt the solid. Ra • B3 is the measure of the magnitude of the natural convection effect, where B is a dimensionless measure of the size of the melt region called the gap function. Ra itself can be thought of as a dimensionless heat flux, since it does not take the size of the melt region into account. The dimensionless groups Stq and Ra (based upon the surface heat flux) are used to determine two parameter expansions of the dependent variables for the regular perturbation method. The first three terms of the series solutions are determined. They provide accurate solutions for short times after the start of melting, for small values of Stefan and Rayleigh numbers. The accuracy of the perturbation method is verified using a numerical method, which is not limited to short initial time intervals or to small values of Stefan and Rayleigh numbers. Detailed predictions of the melt volume, shape, temperature field, global and local heat transfer rates are given for representative cases. Comparisons with earlier experimental results are made.


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