A critical analysis of turbulent natural and forced convection in a plane channel based on direct numerical simulation

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 387-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Kiš ◽  
H. Herwig
Author(s):  
Yurii G. Chesnokov ◽  

Using the results obtained by the method of direct numerical simulation of the heat transfer process in a flat channel by various authors, it is shown that at small values of Prandtl number quite a few characteristics of the heat transfer process in a flat channel depend not on Reynolds and Prandtl numbers separately, but on Peclet number. Peclet number is calculated from the so-called dynamic speed


2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 105103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prem Venugopal ◽  
Robert D. Moser ◽  
Fady M. Najjar

Author(s):  
Xu Chu ◽  
Eckart Laurien

For fluids at supercritical pressure, the phase change from liquid to gas does not exist. Meanwhile, the fluid properties change drastically in a narrow temperature range. With supercritical fluid as working fluid in a heated pipe, heat-transfer deterioration and recovery have been observed, which corresponds to the turbulent flow relaminarization and recovery. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of supercritical carbon dioxide flow in a heated vertical circular pipe is developed with the open-source code OpenFOAM in this study. Forced-convection and mixed-convection cases including upward and downward flow have been considered in the simulation. In the forced convection, flow turbulence is attenuated due to acceleration from thermal expansion, which leads to a peak of the wall temperature. However, buoyancy shows a stronger impact on the flow. In the upward flow, the average streamwise velocity distribution turns into an M-shaped profile because of the external effect of buoyancy. Besides that, negative buoyancy production caused by the density variation reduces the Reynolds shear stress to almost zero, which means that the flow is relaminarized. Further downstream, turbulence is recovered. This behavior of flow turbulence is confirmed by visualization of turbulent streaks and vortex structures.


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