Mixed Convection in a Vertical Microannulus Between Two Concentric Microtubes

2008 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mete Avcı ◽  
Orhan Aydın

In this study, fully developed mixed convective heat transfer of a Newtonian fluid in a vertical microannulus between two concentric microtubes is analytically investigated by taking the velocity slip and the temperature jump at the wall into account. The effects of the mixed convection parameter Gr/Re, the Knudsen number Kn, and the aspect ratio r* on the microchannel hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors are determined. Finally, a Nu=f(Gr∕Re,Kn,r*) expression is developed. It is disclosed that increasing Gr/Re enhances heat transfer while rarefaction effects considered by the velocity slip and the temperature jump in the slip flow regime decreases it.

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (8) ◽  
pp. 1091-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mete Avcı ◽  
Orhan Aydın

In this study, exact analytical results are presented for fully developed mixed convective heat transfer of a Newtonian fluid in an open-ended vertical parallel plate microchannel with asymmetric wall heating at uniform heat fluxes. The velocity slip and the temperature jump at the wall are included in the formulation. The effects of the modified mixed convection parameter, Grq∕Re, the Knudsen number, Kn, and the ratio of wall heat flux, rq=q1∕q2, on the microchannel hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors are determined. Finally, a Nu=f(Grq∕Re,Kn,rq) expression is developed. For, the limiting case of Kn=0, the results are found to be in an excellent agreement with those in the existing literature.


2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Colin

Accurate modeling of gas microvection is crucial for a lot of MEMS applications (microheat exchangers, pressure gauges, fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, mass flow and temperature microsensors, micropumps, and microsystems for mixing or separation for local gas analysis, mass spectrometers, vacuum, and dosing valves…). Gas flows in microsystems are often in the slip flow regime, characterized by a moderate rarefaction with a Knudsen number of the order of 10−2–10−1. In this regime, velocity slip and temperature jump at the walls play a major role in heat transfer. This paper presents a state of the art review on convective heat transfer in microchannels, focusing on rarefaction effects in the slip flow regime. Analytical and numerical models are compared for various microchannel geometries and heat transfer conditions (constant heat flux or constant wall temperature). The validity of simplifying assumptions is detailed and the role played by the kind of velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions is shown. The influence of specific effects, such as viscous dissipation, axial conduction and variable fluid properties is also discussed.


2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mete Avcı ◽  
Orhan Aydın

In this study, fully developed mixed convective heat transfer of a Newtonian fluid in an open-ended vertical parallel plate microchannel is analytically investigated by taking the velocity slip and the temperature jump at the wall into account. The effects of the mixed convection parameter, Gr/Re, the Knudsen number, Kn, and the ratio of wall temperature difference, rT, on the microchannel hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors are determined. Finally, a Nu=f(Gr∕Re,Kn,rT) expression is developed.


Author(s):  
Hamid Niazmand ◽  
Behnam Rahimi

Developing natural convection gaseous flows in an open-ended parallel plate vertical microchannel with isothermal wall conditions are numerically investigated to analyze the rarefaction effects on heat transfer and flow characteristics in slip flow regime. The Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solve by a control volume technique subject to higher-order temperature jump and velocity slip conditions including thermal creep effects. The flow and thermal fields in the entrance and fully developed regions along with the axial variations of velocity slip, temperature jump, and heat transfer rates are examined in detail. It is found that rarefaction effects significantly influence the flow and thermal fields such that mass flow and heat transfer rates are increased considerably as compared to the continuum regime. Furthermore, thermal creep contribution to the velocity slip is found to be dominant close to the channel inlet and vanishes in the fully developed region, while velocity slip approaches a finite value there. Both Mass flow rate and thermal entrance length increase with increasing Knudsen number in slip flow regime.


Author(s):  
Ste´phane Colin

Accurate modeling of gas microvection is crucial for a lot of MEMS applications (micro-heat exchangers, pressure gauges, fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, mass flow and temperature micro-sensors, micropumps and microsystems for mixing or separation for local gas analysis, mass spectrometers, vacuum and dosing valves…). Gas flows in microsystems are often in the slip flow regime, characterized by a moderate rarefaction with a Knudsen number of the order of 10−2–10−1. In this regime, velocity slip and temperature jump at the walls play a major role in heat transfer. This paper presents a state of the art review on convective heat transfer in microchannels, focusing on rarefaction effects in the slip flow regime. Analytical and numerical models are compared for various microchannel geometries and heat transfer conditions (constant heat flux or constant wall temperature). The validity of simplifying assumptions is detailed and the role played by the kind of velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions is shown. The influence of specific effects, such as viscous dissipation, axial conduction and variable fluid properties is also discussed.


Author(s):  
H. D. Madhawa Hettiarachchi ◽  
Mihajlo Golubovic ◽  
William M. Worek

Slip-flow and heat transfer in rectangular microchannels are studied numerically for constant wall temperature (T) and constant wall heat flux (H2) boundary conditions under thermally developing flow. Navier-Stokes and energy equations with velocity slip and temperature jump at the boundary are solved using finite volume method in a three dimensional cartesian coordinate system. A modified convection-diffusion coefficient at the wall-fluid interface is defined to incorporate the temperature-jump boundary condition. Validity of the numerical simulation procedure is stabilized. The effect of rarefaction on heat transfer in the entrance region is analyzed in detail. The velocity slip has an increasing effect on the Nusselt (Nu) number whereas temperature jump has a decreasing effect, and the combined effect could result increase or decrease in the Nu number. For the range of parameters considered, there could be high as 15% increase or low as 50% decrease in fully developed Nu is plausible for T thermal boundary condition while it could be high as 20% or low as 35% for H2 thermal boundary condition.


2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Vocale ◽  
Gian Luca Morini ◽  
Marco Spiga

In this work, hydrodynamically and thermally fully developed gas flow through elliptical microchannels is numerically investigated. The Navier–Stokes and energy equations are solved by considering the first-order slip flow boundary conditions and by assuming that the wall heat flux is uniform in the axial direction, and the wall temperature is uniform in the peripheral direction (i.e., H1 boundary conditions). To take into account the microfabrication of the elliptical microchannels, different heated perimeter lengths are analyzed along the microchannel wetted perimeter. The influence of the cross section geometry on the convective heat transfer coefficient is also investigated by considering the most common values of the elliptic aspect ratio, from a practical point of view. The numerical results put in evidence that the Nusselt number is a decreasing function of the Knudsen number for all the considered configurations. On the contrary, the role of the cross section geometry in the convective heat transfer depends on the thermal boundary condition and on the rarefaction degree. With the aim to provide a useful tool for the designer, a correlation that allows evaluating the Nusselt number for any value of aspect ratio and for different working gases is proposed.


Author(s):  
C. B. Sobhan ◽  
Muhsin M. Ameen ◽  
Praveen P. Abraham

A numerical investigation of natural convection heat transfer from a rectangular fin array of microscale dimensions, where a “down and up” flow pattern occurs, is carried out. The stream function vorticity formulation is used in the analysis and the governing equations of the transient two dimensional field are solved using an explicit finite difference scheme. The dimensions of the domain are such that the problem falls under the slip flow regime. The non continuum effects are modeled through Maxwell’s velocity slip and Smoluchowski’s temperature jump boundary conditions. The steady state velocity and temperature distributions in the field are obtained by marching through the transient state. The average heat transfer coefficient and the Nusselt Number are calculated. The influence of the fin spacing, fin height and operating pressure on the performance of the fin array is studied through parametric studies and some conclusions are drawn regarding the significance of non continuum effects in the micro scale dimensions considered.


2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 440-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianfang Liu ◽  
Jing Zhu ◽  
Bandar Bin-Mohsin ◽  
Liancun Zheng

Nanofluid slip flow with distinct solid particles past a wedge with convective surface and high order slip is discussed in this paper. The wedge model is modified by considering the effects of Brownian motion and thermophphoresis together with the high order velocity slip and temperature jump. In this study, the governing fundamental equations are first transformed into third-order ordinary differential equations and solved by using the homotopy analysis method (HAM). Through error analysis and comparison with previous research, the effectiveness of HAM is ascertained, and the crucial influence of nanoparticles and high-order slip on the fluid skin-friction coefficient and heat transfer coefficient is analyed. Thermophphoresis parameter and suction/injection parameter are found to cause an increase in velocity and temperature. The rate of heat transfer in the Cu–water nanofluid is found to be higher than the others.


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