Analytical Solutions of Heat Transfer and Film Thickness in Thin-Film Evaporation

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunji Yan ◽  
H. B. Ma

A mathematical model predicting heat transfer and film thickness in thin-film region is developed herein. Utilizing dimensionless analysis, analytical solutions have been obtained for heat flux distribution, total heat transfer rate per unit length, location of the maximum heat flux and ratio of conduction thermal resistance to convection thermal resistance in the evaporating film region. These analytical solutions show that the maximum dimensionless heat flux is constant which is independent of the superheat. Maximum total heat transfer rate is determined for a given film region. The ratio of conduction thermal resistance to convection thermal resistance is a function of dimensionless film thickness. This work will lead to a better understanding of heat transfer and fluid flow occurring in the evaporating film region.

Author(s):  
Chunji Yan ◽  
Hongbin Ma

A mathematical model predicting heat transfer and film thickness in thin film region is developed. Utilizing the dimensionless analysis, analytical solutions of the heat flux distribution, the total heat transfer rate per unit width, the location of the maximum heat flux and the ratio of the conduction thermal resistance to the convection thermal resistance in evaporating film region have been obtained. The analytical solutions obtained herein indicate that the maximum dimensionless heat flux is constant which is independent on the superheat. For a given thin film region, its maximum total heat transfer rate is determined. The ratio of the conduction thermal resistance to the convection thermal resistance is a function of dimensionless film thickness. This work will lead to a better understanding of heat transfer and fluid flow occurring in the evaporating film region.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 899-897
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Gui ◽  
Xiange Song ◽  
Baisheng Nie

The effects of contact angle and superheat on thin-film thickness and heat flux distribution occurring in a rectangle microgroove are numerically simulated. Accordingly, physical, and mathematical models are built in detail. Numerical results indicate that meniscus radius and thin-film thickness increase with the improvement of contact angle. The heat flux distribution in the thin-film region increases non-linearly as the contact angle decreases. The total heat transfer through the thin-film region increases with the improvement of superheat, and decreases as the contact angle increases. When the contact angle is equal to zero, the heat transfer in the thin-film region accounts for more than 80% of the total heat transfer. Intensive evaporation in the thin-film region plays a key role in heat transfer for the rectangle capillary microgroove. The liquid with higher wetting performance is more capable of playing the advantages of higher intensity heat transfer in thin- film region. The current investigation will result in a better understanding of thin- -film evaporation and its effect on the effective thermal conductivity in the rectangle microgroove.


Author(s):  
Hsiang-Sheng Huang ◽  
Jung-Chang Wang ◽  
Sih-Li Chen

This article provides an experimental method to study the thermal performance of a heat sink with two pairs (outer and inner pair) of embedded heat pipes. The proposed method can determine the heat transfer rate of the heat pipes under various heating power of the heat source. A comprehensive thermal resistance network of the heat sink is also developed. The network estimates the thermal resistances of the heat sink by applying the thermal performance test result. The results show that the outer and inner pairs of heat pipes carries 21% and 27% of the total heat transfer rate respectively, while 52% of the heating power is dissipated from the base plate to the fins. The dominated thermal resistance of the heat sink is the base to heat pipes resistance which is strongly affected by the thermal performance of the heat pipes. The total thermal resistance of the heat sink shows the lowest value, 0.23°C/W, while the total heat transfer rate of the heat sink is 140W and the heat transfer rate of the outer and inner pairs of heat pipes is 30W and 38 W, respectively.


2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devashish Shrivastava ◽  
Benjamin McKay ◽  
Robert B. Roemer

Counter-current (vessel–vessel) heat transfer has been postulated as one of the most important heat transfer mechanisms in living systems. Surprisingly, however, the accurate quantification of the vessel–vessel, and vessel–tissue, heat transfer rates has never been performed in the most general and important case of a finite, unheated/heated tissue domain with noninsulated boundary conditions. To quantify these heat transfer rates, an exact analytical expression for the temperature field is derived by solving the 2-D Poisson equation with uniform Dirichlet boundary conditions. The new results obtained using this solution are as follows: first, the vessel–vessel heat transfer rate can be a large fraction of the total heat transfer rate of each vessel, thus quantitatively demonstrating the need to accurately model the vessel–vessel heat transfer for vessels imbedded in tissues. Second, the vessel–vessel heat transfer rate is shown to be independent of the source term; while the heat transfer rates from the vessels to the tissue show a significant dependence on the source term. Third, while many previous studies have assumed that (1) the total heat transfer rate from vessels to tissue is zero, and/or (2) the heat transfer rates from paired vessels (of different sizes and at different temperatures) to tissue are equal to each other the current analysis shows that neither of these conditions is met. The analytical solution approach used to solve this two vessels problem is general and can be extended for the case of “N” arbitrarily located vessels.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Rahul Kunar ◽  
Dr Sukul Lomash

The heat transfer from surface may in general be enhanced by increasing the heat transfer coefficient between a surface and its surrounding or by increasing heat transfer area of the surface or by both. The main objective of the study and calculate the total heat transfer coefficient. Improve the heat transfer rate by using ANSYS CFD. During the CFD calculations of the flow in internally ribbed tubes. And calculated the temperature distribution and pressure inside the tube by using ansys. The model was created using CatiaV5 and meshed with Ansys, and the flow analysis is done with Ansys 19.2. The results showing that the heat transfer is increased. The enthalpy and temperature increase with flow is advancing when compare with normal boiler tube. In this study the total heat transfer rate of the pipe increase with the increase the rib height. Total heat transfer rate increase up to 7.7kw. The study show that the improvement in furnace heat transfer can be achieved by changing the internal rib design.


1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Doorly

The paper describes how thin film surface heat flux gages may be used to measure surface heat transfer rate to enamel-coated metal turbine blades. Flexible methods, which are also computationally efficient, for obtaining the heat transfer rate are described. Experimental results, using the new coated metal turbine blades and processing techniques, in a stationary transient cascade facility are given, and are shown to agree well with results using the existing method for gages on single-layer substrate blades. The application of the gages for measuring highly unsteady heat transfer is also discussed.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 662-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bejan

This paper describes the fundamental mechanisms of heat transfer through a surface covered with perpendicular hair strands of uniform density. An air flow parallel to the skin seeps through the spaces created between the hair strands. It is shown that the total heat transfer rate from the surface is due to two contributions: (i) the heat conducted through the hair strands, which act as fins, and (ii) the heat convected from the bare portions of the skin. When the air flow is slow enough to conform to the Darcy regime, there exists an optimum hair strand diameter for which the total heat transfer rate is minimum. The optimum diameter increases as the square root of the length swept by the air flow, that is the linear size of the body of the animal covered with hair.


2013 ◽  
Vol 284-287 ◽  
pp. 908-914
Author(s):  
King Leung Wong ◽  
Wen Lih Chen ◽  
Li Wen Po

Log mean temperature difference (LMTD) method neglecting the influence of heat radiation is conventionally used to calculate the total heat transfer rate of heat exchangers. From recent investigation of a single-pipe heat exchanger in some practical situations, it is found that the total heat transfer rate error of single-pipe heat exchanger obtained by LMTD method is up to 40% in the situation of oxidized metal heat exchanger with higher surface emissivity located in ambient air with low heat convection coefficient. A log mean heat transfer rate (LMHTR) method considering heat radiation has been developed to calculate the total heat transfer rate of a single-pipe heat exchanger and more accurate results can be achieved. It is also found in the present investigation that LMTD method is also not suitable to apply to non-insulated double-pipe heat exchangers and a more accurate LMHTR method considering heat radiation is developed to obtain the more reasonable results.


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