A Numerical Study of Combined Heat and Mass Transfer in an Inclined Channel Using the VOF Multiphase Model

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Banerjee
Author(s):  
Othmane Oulaid ◽  
Brahim Benhamou ◽  
Nicolas Galanis

This work deals with a numerical study of simultaneous heat and mass transfer with phase change in an inclined channel formed by two parallel plates. The lower one is covered by a thin liquid water film and the upper one is considered impermeable. The plates are maintained at a constant temperature TW. Ambient air with uniform dry bulb temperature Tin and relative humidity φin enters the channel with a uniform upward velocity Uin. The liquid film is assumed to be extremely thin and its temperature is equal to the wall temperature. Steady state conditions are considered and the flow is assumed to be laminar. Viscous dissipation, radiation heat transfer and other secondary effects (pressure work, energy transport by the inter-diffusion of species, Dufour and Soret effects) are neglected. The physical properties are taken constant except for the density in the body forces, which is considered to be a linear function of temperature and mass fraction. Results show that buoyancy forces have an important effect on the hydrodynamic, thermal and mass fraction fields and this effect depends on the channel inclination. A flow reversal chart and analytical correlations for the corresponding critical values of the thermal and solutal Grashof numbers are presented for different channel inclinations.


2020 ◽  
pp. 854-869
Author(s):  
Rabiha S. Kareem ◽  
Ahmed M. Abdulhadi

In this paper, we study the impacts of variable viscosity , heat and mass transfer on magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) peristaltic flow in a asymmetric tapered inclined channel with porous medium . The viscosity is considered as a function of temperature. The slip conditions at the walls were taken into consideration. SmallReynolds number and the long wavelength approximations were used to simplify the governing equations. A comparison between the two velocities in cases of slip and no-slip was plotted. It was observed that the behavior of the velocity differed in the two applied models for some parameters. Mathematica software was used to estimate the exact solutions of temperature and concentration profiles. The resolution of the equations to the momentum was based on the perturbation method to find the axial velocity, pressure gradient and trapping phenomenon. The influences of the various flow parameters of the problem on these distributions were debated and proved graphically by figures.


2017 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 2647-2654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Zhibo Fu ◽  
Xiaohu Yang ◽  
Lianying Zhang ◽  
Qunli Zhang ◽  
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