scholarly journals Improved Lumped Models for Transient Combined Convective and Radiative Cooling of Multilayer Spherical Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Chen An ◽  
Alice Cunha da Silva ◽  
Jian Su
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Generation ◽  
Spherical Body ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Trapezoidal Rule ◽  
Radiative Cooling ◽  
Fuel Particle ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Lumped Models ◽  
Coated Fuel Particle

In this work, we studied the transient combined convection and radiation of multilayer spherical media with volumetric heat generation, extending the previous work on the particular case of a spherical body subjected to radiative cooling. The proposed lumped models were obtained through two-point Hermite approximations for the average temperature and heat flux in each layer. For the average temperature, the plain trapezoidal rule (H0,0 approximation) was employed in all layers, except for the innermost layer, where the second-order two-side corrected trapezoidal rule (H2,1 approximation) was utilized. For the heat flux, the plain trapezoidal rule (H0,0 approximation) was employed for all the layers. The transient heat conduction in a TRISO-coated fuel particle being composed of five layers (namely, fuel kernel, buffer of porous carbon, inner pyrocarbon, silicon carbide, and outer pyrocarbon) was analyzed using the proposed lumped models, the results of which were verified by comparison with the finite difference solution of the original distributed parameter model. Parametric studies were conducted to examine the effects of the dimensionless heat generation rate, the radiation-conduction parameter, and the Biot number on the temporal variations of the average temperatures.

Studies of Radiative Cooling Systems for Storing Thermal Energy

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ito ◽  
N. Miura
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Energy Storage ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Storage Tank ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Radiative Cooling ◽  
Cooling Systems ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Radiative Power

The thermal performance of an uncovered radiator and a radiative cooling system was investigated experimentally and theoretically. The net radiative power of a black painted surface at ambient air temperature was measured by heat flux plates at night in order to use the results for predicting temperatures of the radiator surface and the fluid in the cooling system on the same night. The net radiative power obtained by the measurements was 40–60 W/m2 on clear nights in the summer and 60–80 W/m2 in the fall and winter. The average temperature of the energy storage tank on clear nights became 2–5°C below the ambient temperature. The experimental and analytical results agreed well with each other.

scholarly journals Pool Boiling of Nanofluids on Biphilic Surfaces: An Experimental and Numerical Study

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Eduardo Freitas ◽  
Pedro Pontes ◽  
Ricardo Cautela ◽  
Vaibhav Bahadur ◽  
João Miranda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Numerical Model ◽  
Heat Dissipation ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Temperature Drop ◽  
Surface Cooling ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Gold Silver

This study addresses the combination of customized surface modification with the use of nanofluids, to infer on its potential to enhance pool-boiling heat transfer. Hydrophilic surfaces patterned with superhydrophobic regions were developed and used as surface interfaces with different nanofluids (water with gold, silver, aluminum and alumina nanoparticles), in order to evaluate the effect of the nature and concentration of the nanoparticles in bubble dynamics and consequently in heat transfer processes. The main qualitative and quantitative analysis was based on extensive post-processing of synchronized high-speed and thermographic images. To study the nucleation of a single bubble in pool boiling condition, a numerical model was also implemented. The results show an evident benefit of using biphilic patterns with well-established distances between the superhydrophobic regions. This can be observed in the resulting plot of the dissipated heat flux for a biphilic pattern with seven superhydrophobic spots, δ = 1/d and an imposed heat flux of 2132 w/m2. In this case, the dissipated heat flux is almost constant (except in the instant t* ≈ 0.9 when it reaches a peak of 2400 W/m2), whilst when using only a single superhydrophobic spot, where the heat flux dissipation reaches the maximum shortly after the detachment of the bubble, dropping continuously until a new necking phase starts. The biphilic patterns also allow a controlled bubble coalescence, which promotes fluid convection at the hydrophilic spacing between the superhydrophobic regions, which clearly contributes to cool down the surface. This effect is noticeable in the case of employing the Ag 1 wt% nanofluid, with an imposed heat flux of 2132 W/m2, where the coalescence of the drops promotes a surface cooling, identified by a temperature drop of 0.7 °C in the hydrophilic areas. Those areas have an average temperature of 101.8 °C, whilst the average temperature of the superhydrophobic spots at coalescence time is of 102.9 °C. For low concentrations as the ones used in this work, the effect of the nanofluids was observed to play a minor role. This can be observed on the slight discrepancy of the heat dissipation decay that occurred in the necking stage of the bubbles for nanofluids with the same kind of nanoparticles and different concentration. For the Au 0.1 wt% nanofluid, a heat dissipation decay of 350 W/m2 was reported, whilst for the Au 0.5 wt% nanofluid, the same decay was only of 280 W/m2. The results of the numerical model concerning velocity fields indicated a sudden acceleration at the bubble detachment, as can be qualitatively analyzed in the thermographic images obtained in this work. Additionally, the temperature fields of the analyzed region present the same tendency as the experimental results.

A Transient Formulation of Newton's Cooling Law for Spherical Bodies

2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Sazhin ◽  
V. A. Gol'dshtein ◽  
M. R. Heikal
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Diesel Engine ◽  
Effective Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Spherical Body ◽  
Fuel Droplet ◽  
Transient Effects ◽  
Newton's Law ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Newton’S Law

Newton's law of cooling is shown to underestimate the heat flux between a spherical body (droplet) and a homogeneous gas after this body is suddenly immersed into the gas. This problem is rectified by replacing the gas thermal conductivity by the effective thermal conductivity. The latter reduces to the gas thermal conductivity in the limit of t→∞, but can be substantially higher in the limit of t→0. In the case of fuel droplet heating in a medium duty truck Diesel engine the gas thermal conductivity may need to be increased by more than 100 percent at the initial stage of calculations to account for transient effects during the process of droplet heating.

Transient Temperature and Heat Flux Measurement in Ultrasonic Joining of Battery Tabs Using Thin-Film Microsensors

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hang Li ◽  
Hongseok Choi ◽  
Chao Ma ◽  
Jingzhou Zhao ◽  
Hongrui Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Generation ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Ultrasonic Welding ◽  
Transient Temperature ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Change Rate ◽  
Flux Change ◽  
And Control

Process physics understanding, real time monitoring, and control of various manufacturing processes, such as battery manufacturing, are crucial for product quality assurance. While ultrasonic welding has been used for joining batteries in electric vehicles (EVs), the welding physics, and process attributes, such as the heat generation and heat flow during the joining process, is still not well understood leading to time-consuming trial-and-error based process optimization. This study is to investigate thermal phenomena (i.e., transient temperature and heat flux) by using micro thin-film thermocouples (TFTC) and thin-film thermopile (TFTP) arrays (referred to as microsensors in this paper) at the very vicinity of the ultrasonic welding spot during joining of three-layered battery tabs and Cu buss bars (i.e., battery interconnect) as in General Motors's (GM) Chevy Volt. Microsensors were first fabricated on the buss bars. A series of experiments were then conducted to investigate the dynamic heat generation during the welding process. Experimental results showed that TFTCs enabled the sensing of transient temperatures with much higher spatial and temporal resolutions than conventional thermocouples. It was further found that the TFTPs were more sensitive to the transient heat generation process during welding than TFTCs. More significantly, the heat flux change rate was found to be able to provide better insight for the process. It provided evidence indicating that the ultrasonic welding process involves three distinct stages, i.e., friction heating, plastic work, and diffusion bonding stages. The heat flux change rate thus has significant potential to identify the in-situ welding quality, in the context of welding process monitoring, and control of ultrasonic welding process. The weld samples were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) to study the material interactions at the bonding interface as a function of weld time and have successfully validated the proposed three-stage welding theory.

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