Mass and heat transfer in a diatomic gas

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Haas ◽  
V. S. Arapaci ◽  
G. S. Springer

The transfer of mass and heat through a diatomic gas bounded by two plane parallel surfaces is investigated by a kinetic model which includes translational, rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom. A full range moment method is employed in the solution. Numerical solutions obtained for small temperature and pressure differences show the effect of inelastic collisions on the mass and heat fluxes. Approximate analytical expressions are derived for the mass and heat transfer rates, which are valid over the entire density range and yield the correct free-molecule and continuum limits. The results agree well with existing heat transfer and density measurements.

Coatings ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar ◽  
Aftab Ahmed Faridi ◽  
Sohail Ahmad ◽  
Nargis Khan ◽  
Kashif Ali ◽  
...  

The mass and heat transfer magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows have a substantial use in heat exchangers, electromagnetic casting, X-rays, the cooling of nuclear reactors, mass transportation, magnetic drug treatment, energy systems, fiber coating, etc. The present work numerically explores the mass and heat transportation flow of MHD micropolar fluid with the consideration of a chemical reaction. The flow is taken between the walls of a permeable channel. The quasi-linearization technique is utilized to solve the complex dynamical coupled and nonlinear differential equations. The consequences of the preeminent parameters are portrayed via graphs and tables. A tabular and graphical comparison evidently reveals a correlation of our results with the existing ones. A strong deceleration is found in the concentration due to the effect of a chemical reaction. Furthermore, the impact of the magnetic field force is to devaluate the mass and heat transfer rates not only at the lower but at the upper channel walls, likewise.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Renksizbulut ◽  
M. C. Yuen

Numerical solutions for high-temperature air flowing past water and methanol droplets and solid spheres, and superheated steam flowing past water droplets were obtained in the Reynolds number range of 10 to 100. The coupled momentum, energy, and specie continuity equations of variable thermophysical properties were solved using finite difference techniques. The numerical results of heat transfer and total drag agree well with existing experimental data. Mass transfer decreases friction drag significantly but at the same time increases pressure drag by almost an equal amount. The net effect is that the standard drag curve for solid spheres can be used for evaporating droplets provided the density is the free stream density and the viscosity of the vapor mixture is evaluated at an appropriate reference temperature and concentration. Both the mass efflux and variable properties decrease heat transfer rates to the droplets.


2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-244
Author(s):  
Antonio Campo ◽  
Francisco Alhama

Evaluation of spatio-temporal temperatures and total heat transfer rates in simple bodies (large plate, long cylinder and sphere) has been traditionally explained in undergraduate courses of heat transfer by the Heisler/Gröber or by the Boelter/Gröber charts. These three charts pose some restrictions with respect to the applicable times. Additionally, the charts do not provide information about the time-dependent heat fluxes at the surface. Conversely, evaluation of spatio-temporal temperatures, time-dependent heat fluxes at the surface and total heat transfer rates can be easily done for the entire time domain with the network simulation method (NSM) in conjunction with the commercial code PSPICE. NSM relies on the existing physical analogy between the unsteady transport of electric current and the unsteady transport of unidirectional heat by conduction. This analogy has been named the RC analogy in the specialized literature. The code PSPICE simulates the electric circuits for a specific body together with the imposed boundary and initial conditions, and produces numerical results for the quantities of interest, such as: the spatio-temporal temperature distributions; the time-dependent heat flux distributions at the surface; and the total heat transfer.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Le Peutrec ◽  
G. Lauriat

Numerical solutions are obtained for fluid flows and heat transfer rates for three-dimensional natural convection in rectangular enclosures. The effects of heat losses at the conducting side walls are investigated. The problem is related to the design of cavities suitable for visualizing the flow field. The computations cover Rayleigh numbers from 103 to 107 and the thermal conductance of side walls ranging from adiabatic to commonly used glazed walls. The effect of the difference between the ambient temperature and the average temperature of the two isothermal walls is discussed for both air and water-filled enclosures. The results reported in the paper allow quantitative evaluations of the effects of heat losses to the surroundings, which are important considerations in the design of a test cell.


1971 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1081-1083
Author(s):  
K. W. McAlister

Laminar free convection of a Newtonian fluid passing over a curved wall having arbitrary temperature variation is considered. The governing equations are presented and the method of free parameters is used to investigate the existence of similarity solutions. It is found that similarity solutions do exist when the wall inclination and temperature are required to be certain functions of the coordinate parallel to the wall. Numerical solutions to several example cases are presented which indicate that higher heat-transfer rates are possible on a wall which is concave with respect to the fluid.


Author(s):  
Xin Feng ◽  
James E. Bryan

The effect of electric fields applied to two-phase impingement heat transfer is explored for the first time. The application of an electric field between a capillary and heated surface results in the ability to control the free boundary flow from discreet drops to jets to sprays. Through an experimental study, the impingement heat transfer was evaluated over a range of operating and geometrical parameters using subcooled ethanol as the working fluid. The ability to change the mode of impinging mass did change the surface heat transfer. The characteristics of the impinging mass on heat transfer was dependent on capillary flow rate, applied voltage, capillary to heated surface spacing, capillary geometry, and heat flux. Enhancement occurred primarily at low heat fluxes (below 30 W/cm2) under ramified spray conditions where the droplet momentum promoted thin films on the heated surface. Higher heat fluxes resulted in greater vapor momentum from the surface minimizing the effect of different modes. However, under ramified spray conditions less mass was impacting the heated surface showing that heat transfer rates at higher heat fluxes were achievable with less mass, resulting in greater evaporation efficiency.


2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishal Anand ◽  
Ivan C. Christov

We study hydrodynamics, heat transfer, and entropy generation in pressure-driven microchannel flow of a power-law fluid. Specifically, we address the effect of asymmetry in the slip boundary condition at the channel walls. Constant, uniform but unequal heat fluxes are imposed at the walls in this thermally developed flow. The effect of asymmetric slip on the velocity profile, on the wall shear stress, on the temperature distribution, on the Bejan number profiles, and on the average entropy generation and the Nusselt number are established through the numerical evaluation of exact analytical expressions derived. Specifically, due to asymmetric slip, the fluid momentum flux and thermal energy flux are enhanced along the wall with larger slip, which, in turn, shifts the location of the velocity's maximum to an off-center location closer to the said wall. Asymmetric slip is also shown to redistribute the peaks and plateaus of the Bejan number profile across the microchannel, showing a sharp transition between entropy generation due to heat transfer and due to fluid flow at an off-center-line location. In the presence of asymmetric slip, the difference in the imposed heat fluxes leads to starkly different Bejan number profiles depending on which wall is hotter, and whether the fluid is shear-thinning or shear-thickening. Overall, slip is shown to promote uniformity in both the velocity field and the temperature field, thereby reducing irreversibility in this flow.


Author(s):  
Herman D. Haustein ◽  
Alon Gany

This work deals with the dynamics of rapid-boiling of a droplet, at medium-high superheat, rising in a host liquid environment. It considers the heat transfer, the superheat consumption and the hydrodynamics of the droplet as it boils. In the course of the research water-column experiments were conducted, and results are shown. Superheating was implemented by the sudden depressurization of the ambient liquid. Boiling was very rapid, concluding within several milliseconds, and high heat fluxes across the interface were obtained. Additionally, certain critical times in the boiling process were predicted and defined, and a novel criterion for the end of rapid boiling (liquid film collapse), is proposed. These defined critical times agree well with measured points of change in the boiling dynamics. From these results and analysis a deeper understanding of the three-fluid rapid boiling at medium-high superheat has been established, for the first time. In addition, various initial conditions were tested and their effect established qualitatively. This form of boiling, though being very rapid and sustaining high heat transfer rates, is non-explosive in nature, and therefore more designable and widely applicable.


Author(s):  
Ajay Chatterjee ◽  
Drazen Fabris

Impinging flows are widely used to enhance convective heat transfer by promoting separation, recirculation and higher rates of local convection. We consider unsteady flow and heat transfer effects in a prototypical T-shaped geometry as an impinging jet. Depending on the relative length scales, the steady laminar flow in this geometry may lose stability and transition to time periodic flow even at a low Reynolds number. A key feature of the periodic structure is the presence of ‘twin’ circulation regions adjacent to the jet column, and separation vortices anchored at the impinging surface in place of the wall jet in steady flow. The separation vortices are located above shear layers lying along the confining plane of the geometry which is flush with the jet exit. Consequently, convective heat transfer is enhanced across this plane. We present calculations to show the effect of the structure of the periodic flow on heat transfer rates across the two parallel surfaces. For a shear thinning fluid the local Nusselt number at the confining surface averaged over a long length scale (∼ 50 times the nozzle width) is more than twice as large compared to that in steady flow, while for the Newtonian fluid the mean Nusselt number increases about 60%. A mild increase in the transport rate across the impinging surface is also observed. Thus flow periodicity due to instability of the steady flow field provides a mechanism to increase the total heat transfer rate across the two surfaces.


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