The three-dimensional flow field and heat transfer in a rib-roughened channel at large rotation numbers

Author(s):  
Ignacio Mayo ◽  
Tony Arts ◽  
Laurent Y.M. Gicquel
Author(s):  
James Petroski ◽  
Mehmet Arik ◽  
Mustafa Gursoy

Piezoelectric fans have been investigated for electronics cooling over the last decade. The primary usage or method has been to place the vibrating fan near the surface to be cooled. The piezofan used in the current study is composed of a piezo actuator attached to a flexible metal beam. It is operated at up to 120VAC and at 60 Hz. While most of the research in the literature focused on cooling bare surfaces, larger heat transfer rates are of interest in the present study. A proposed system of piezoelectric fans and heat sink is presented as a more efficient method of system cooling with these fans. In this paper, a heat sink and piezoelectric fan system demonstrated a capability of cooling an area of about 75 cm2 (about 1 C/W) where electronic assemblies can be mounted. The heat sink not only provides surface area, but also flow shaping for the unusual three-dimensional flow field of the fans. A volumetric coefficient of performance (COPv) is proposed, which allows a piezofan and heat sink system volume to be compared against the heat dissipating capacity of a similar heat sink of the same volume for natural convection. A piezofan system is shown to have a COPv of five times of a typical natural convection solution. The paper will further discuss the effect of nozzles in flow shaping obtained via experimental and computational studies. A three-dimensional flow field of the proposed cooling scheme with a piezofan is obtained via laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) flow visualization method. Velocities at the heat sink in the order of 1.5 m/s were achieved through this critical shaping. Finally, the overall system characterization to different heat loads and fan amplitudes will be discussed.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Ismael ◽  
Hamid Hussein ◽  
Mohammed Tareq ◽  
Mustafa Gunal

e-Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 724-732
Author(s):  
Changchun Ji ◽  
Yudong Wang

AbstractTo investigate the distribution characteristics of the three-dimensional flow field under the slot die, an online measurement of the airflow velocity was performed using a hot wire anemometer. The experimental results show that the air-slot end faces have a great influence on the airflow distribution in its vicinity. Compared with the air velocity in the center area, the velocity below the slot end face is much lower. The distribution characteristics of the three-dimensional flow field under the slot die would cause the fibers at different positions to bear inconsistent air force. The air velocity of the spinning centerline is higher than that around it, which is more conducive to fiber diameter attenuation. The violent fluctuation of the instantaneous velocity of the airflow could easily cause the meltblowing fiber to whip in the area close to the die.


Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1223
Author(s):  
Max Tönsmann ◽  
Philip Scharfer ◽  
Wilhelm Schabel

Convective Marangoni instabilities in drying polymer films may induce surface deformations, which persist in the dry film, deteriorating product performance. While theoretic stability analyses are abundantly available, experimental data are scarce. We report transient three-dimensional flow field measurements in thin poly(vinyl acetate)-methanol films, drying under ambient conditions with several films exhibiting short-scale Marangoni convection cells. An initial assessment of the upper limit of thermal and solutal Marangoni numbers reveals that the solutal effect is likely to be the dominant cause for the observed instabilities.


2011 ◽  
Vol 332-334 ◽  
pp. 260-263
Author(s):  
Shi Rui Liu

In the paper the structure of the compact spinning with pneumatic groove is introduced and the characteristics of three-dimensional flow field of the compact spinning with pneumatic groove are also investigated. Results from this research confirmed that In the compact zone, the air flows to the groove and enters the inner hollow of the slot-roller through the round holes, and the air on both sides of the groove condenses to the center of it and flows to the round holes; It is beneficial to compact the fiber and make the fiber slip to the bottom of the groove with shrink shape; the velocity and negative pressure are both not homogeneous, as the round holes are not continual, and the gradient of static pressure and velocity in compact zones are also perceptible.


Author(s):  
Vincenzo Dossena ◽  
Antonio Perdichizzi ◽  
Marco Savini

The paper presents the results of a detailed investigation of the flow field in a gas turbine linear cascade. A comparison between a contoured and a planar configuration of the same cascade has been performed, and differences in the three-dimensional flow field are here analyzed and discussed. The flow evolution downstream of the trailing edge was surveyed by means of probe traversing while a 3-D Navier-Stokes solver was employed to obtain information on flow structures inside the vaned passages. The experimental measurements and the numerical simulation of the three-dimensional flow field has been performed for two cascades; one with planar endwalls, and the other with one planar and one profiled endwall, so as to present a reduction of the nozzle height. The investigation was carried out at an isentropic downstream Mach number of 0.6. Airfoils of both cascades were scaled from the same high pressure gas turbine inlet guide vane. Measurements of the three-dimensional flow field have been performed on five planes downstream of the cascades by means of a miniaturized five-hole pressure probe. The presence of endwall contouring strongly influences the secondary effects; the vortex generation and their development is inhibited by the stronger acceleration taking place throughout the cascade. The results show that the secondary effects on the contoured side of the passage are confined in the endwall region, while on the flat side the secondary vortices display characteristics similar to the ones occurring downstream of the planar cascade. The spanwise outlet angle distribution presents a linear variation for most of the nozzle height, with quite low values approaching the contoured endwall. The analysis of mass averaged losses shows a significant performance improvement in the contoured cascade. This has to be ascribed not only to lower secondary losses but also to a reduction of the profile losses.


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