Numerical study of heat transfer problems in two-phase flows involving temperature distribution within dispersed solid particles

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shintaro Takeuchi ◽  
Takeo Kajishima
Author(s):  
Leping Zhou ◽  
Yunfang Zhang ◽  
Lijun Yang ◽  
Xiaoze Du ◽  
Minami Yoda ◽  
...  

The study of the natural convection over a very small heat sources is important in the analysis of heat transfer problems in the electronics industry. However, the characteristics of the spatial distribution of the velocity in the near wall region, which is crucial to the mechanisms of heat transfer process in natural convection around a microscale object, is not well understood. In this investigation, the microscale natural convection in the near wall region of a platinum micro heat source was investigated numerically, using FLUENT, a commercially available computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, and compared with corresponding experimental results. The influence of the nanoparticles on the natural convection was observed using the single-phase or two-phase models available in FLUENT. The temperature and velocity fields were obtained, with which the Brownian diffusion coefficient was deduced. The results indicate that the temperature gradient induced Brownian diffusion and thermophoresis in the near wall region plays an important role in the microscale natural convection in the water/nanoparticle mixture investigated and are in good agreement with the results from a corresponding experimental investigation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 1450011 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. ANWAR BÉG ◽  
M. M. RASHIDI ◽  
M. AKBARI ◽  
A. HOSSEINI

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of laminar convection of Al 2 O 3–water bio-nanofluids in a circular tube under constant wall temperature conditions was conducted, employing a single-phase model and three different two-phase models (volume of fluid (VOF), mixture and Eulerian). The steady-state, three-dimensional flow conservation equations were discretised using the finite volume method (FVM). Several parameters such as temperature, flow field, skin friction and heat transfer coefficient were computed. The computations showed that CFD predictions with the three different two-phase models are essentially the same. The CFD simulations also demonstrated that single-phase and two-phase models yield the same results for fluid flow but different results for thermal fields. The two-phase models, however, achieved better correlation with experimental measurements. The simulations further showed that heat transfer coefficient distinctly increases with increasing nanofluid particle concentration. The physical properties of the base fluid were considered to be temperature-dependent, while those of the solid particles were constant. Grid independence tests were also included. The simulations have applications in novel biomedical flow processing systems.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (Suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 257-265
Author(s):  
Xiaopeng Shan ◽  
Geng Guan ◽  
Deming Nie

A two-phase lattice Boltzmann method was used to numerically study the boiling heat transfer related to the liquid-vapor transition induced by two heated plates. The effects of the gravity force as well as the separation between the heated plates were examined. The focus is on the bubble departure behavior resulting from the interaction between bubbles, which can be roughly classified into four types of pat?tern according to the separation between plates. In particular, it is shown that the bubble merging may take place twice in one cycle when the separation is close to a certain value. This is referred to as the pattern of alternation of bubble merging before and after departure, for which a sudden jump is seen in the bubble release period. Furthermore, the heat flux and the flow features are also shown to illustrate the behavior of heat transfer in the present system.


Author(s):  
Wenhai Li ◽  
Ken Alabi ◽  
Foluso Ladeinde

Over the years, empirical correlations have been developed for predicting saturated flow boiling [1–15] and condensation [16–30] heat transfer coefficients inside horizontal/vertical tubes or micro-channels. In the present work, we have examined 30 of these models, and modified many of them for use in compact plate-fin heat exchangers. However, the various correlations, which have been developed for pipes and ducts, have been modified in our work to make them applicable to extended fin surfaces. The various correlations have been used in a low-order, one-dimensional, finite-volume type numerical integration of the flow and heat transfer equations in heat exchangers. The NIST’s REFPROP database [31] is used to account for the large variations in the fluid thermo-physical properties during phase change. The numerical results are compared with Yara’s experimental data [32]. The validity of the various boiling and condensation models for a real plate-fin heat exchanger design is discussed. The results show that some of the modified boiling and condensation correlations can provide acceptable prediction of heat transfer coefficient for two-phase flows in compact plate-fin heat exchangers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 1119-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Tavakoli ◽  
Omid Ali Akbari ◽  
Anoushiravan Mohammadian ◽  
Erfan Khodabandeh ◽  
Farzad Pourfattah

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