Numerical simulation on turbulent flow and heat transfer of the square cross-section helical duct

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongxia Chen ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Jinliang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Turbulent Flow ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

scholarly journals Experimental Study and Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulation of Turbulent Flow in a 90° Curved Square Pipe

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Guanming Guo ◽  
Masaya Kamigaki ◽  
Qiwei Zhang ◽  
Yuuya Inoue ◽  
Keiya Nishida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbulent Flow ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Spatial Average ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Curved Pipes

This paper discusses the turbulent flow and heat transfer from a uniform air flow with high temperature to the outside through a 90° curved square pipe. Both conjugate heat transfer (CHT) simulation and experiments of temperature field measurements at cross sections of the pipe are performed. A straight pipe is investigated and compared with the 90° curved pipe. The temperature of the air flow at the inlet of the pipe is set at 402 K, and the corresponding Reynolds number is approximately 6 × 104. To obtain the spatial average temperature at each cross section, the temperature fields are measured along the streamwise of the pipes and in the circumferential direction using thermocouples at each cross section from the inlet to the outlet of both the straight and curved pipes. Furthermore, the simulation is performed for turbulent flow and heat transfer inside the pipe wall using the Re-normalization group (RNG) k-ε turbulence model and CHT method. Both the experimental and numerical results show that the curvature of the pipe result in a deviation and impingement in the high-temperature core and a separation between the wall and air, resulting in a secondary flow pattern of the temperature distribution.

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