Numerical Investigation on Forced Convection in Circular Tubes With Septa

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Corrente ◽  
O. Manca ◽  
S. Nardini ◽  
D. Ricci ◽  
G. Masullo
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Ideal Gas ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Heat transfer in fluids is very important in many industrial heating and cooling equipments. Convective heat transfer can be enhanced passively by changing flow geometry, boundary conditions or by increasing thermal conductivity of the fluid. Another possibility to increase heat transfer with gas is to employ extended surfaces. When gas flows in a tube, septa with one or more openings can be used as fins. Furthermore, if the openings are arranged to give a spiral motion around the cylinder axis wall-fluid contact area increases. As a consequence the presence of the septa can significantly augment pressure drops. In this paper a numerical investigation is carried out on forced convection in circular isothermal tubes. The fluid is air and ideal gas model is employed. Septa are introduced and several shapes and arrangements are analyzed. The investigation is accomplished by means of the commercial code Fluent. A turbulence model is used. Results are presented in terms of temperature and velocity fields, local and average heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops. The aim of this study is to find the shape and arrangement of septa such to give high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops.

Numerical Investigation of Air Forced Convection in Channels With Transverse Ribs

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Fedele ◽  
O. Manca ◽  
S. Nardini ◽  
D. Ricci ◽  
G. Masullo
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Wall Turbulence ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Heat transfer in fluids is very important in many industrial heating and cooling equipments. Convective heat transfer can be enhanced passively by changing flow geometry, boundary conditions or by increasing thermal conductivity of the fluid. Another possibility for increase heat transfer with fluid is to employ extended surfaces. When fluid flows in a channel, transversal ribs works as fins and break the laminar sub-layer the laminar sub-layer creating local wall turbulence. As a consequence the presence of the ribs can significantly augment pressure drop. In this paper a numerical investigation is carried out on forced convection in a channel with constant flux applied on the external walls. The fluid is air and an incompressible model is employed. Ribs of the same material of the channel walls are introduced and several shape and arrangement are analyzed. The investigation is accomplished by means of the commercial code Fluent. A turbulence model is used. Results are presented in terms of temperature and velocity fields, average heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops. The aim of this study is to find the shape and arrangement of ribs such to give high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops.

A Numerical Investigation on Nanofluids Forced Convection in Channels With Transverse Ribs

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Manca ◽  
S. Nardini ◽  
D. Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Constant Heat Flux ◽  
Wall Turbulence ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Heat transfer enhancement technologies are adopted in several applications as heat exchangers for refrigeration, automotives, process industry, solar heaters. A possibility for increasing the convective heat transfer in a fluid is to employ rough surfaces or adopting additives. When a fluid flows in a channel, ribs break the laminar sub-layer and create local wall turbulence due to flow separation and reattachment between consecutive ribs, which reduce thermal resistance and greatly augment the heat transfer. This behaviour overcomes the effect linked to the increased heat transfer area due to the ribs. However, higher friction losses are expected. In this paper a numerical investigation is carried out on forced convection with nanofluids (water-Al2O3) in a ribbed channel with a constant heat flux applied on the external walls. Properties of fluid are considered constant and a single phase model is employed. Flow regime is turbulent; in fact, Reynolds numbers ranging from 20000 to 60000 are considered. Furthermore, different shapes, such as square, rectangular, triangular ones, and different dimensionless heights and pitches of elements are analyzed. Moreover, two volume particle concentrations are investigated. Results are presented in terms of temperature and velocity fields, average heat transfer coefficients and pressure drop profiles. The aim of this study is to find arrangement of ribs such to give high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops in presence of nanofluids.

Numerical Investigation on the Effect of Transversal Septa on Forced Convection in Circular Tubes

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Manca ◽  
S. Nardini ◽  
D. Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Circular Tubes ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Conventional sources of energy have been depleting at an alarming rate, which makes future sustainable development of energy use very difficult. Thus, heat transfer enhancement technology plays an important role and it has been widely applied to many applications as in refrigeration, automotive, process industry, solar energy heater, etc. Convective heat transfer can be enhanced passively by changing flow geometry, boundary conditions or by increasing thermal conductivity of the fluid. Another possibility for increasing heat transfer with gas is to employ extended surfaces. In this paper a numerical investigation is carried out on forced convection in circular tubes with septa heated by constant fluxes and characterized by different shapes. When gas flows in a tube, septa with one or more openings can be used as fins. Furthermore, when the openings are arranged to give a spiral motion around the cylinder axis wall-fluid contact area increases. As a consequence the presence of the septa may significantly augment pressure drops. The fluid is air and properties are function of temperature. Septa of the same material of the tube are introduced and several shapes and arrangements are analyzed as well as different Reynolds numbers, baffle spacings and heat fluxes applied on the external surface. The investigation is accomplished by means of the commercial code Fluent. A k-e turbulence model is used with enhanced wall treatment options. Results are presented in terms of temperature and velocity fields, local and average heat transfer coefficients, friction factors and pressure drops for different values of heat flux, Reynolds numbers and baffle spacings. The aim of this study is to find the shape and arrangement of septa such to give high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops.

Numerical Analysis on the Effects of Transversal Ribs on Forced Convection in Channels

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Manca ◽  
S. Nardini ◽  
D. Ricci ◽  
S. Tamburrino
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Friction Factor ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Constant Heat Flux ◽  
Wall Turbulence ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Heat transfer in fluids is very important in many industrial heating and cooling equipments. Convective heat transfer can be enhanced passively by changing flow geometry, boundary conditions or by increasing thermal conductivity of the fluid. Another possibility for increasing heat transfer with gas is to employ extended surfaces. When a fluid flows in a channel, transversal ribs can be used as fins and break the laminar sublayer creating local wall turbulence. However, as a consequence the presence of the ribs can significantly augment pressure drops. In this paper a numerical investigation is carried out on forced convection in channels heated by a constant heat flux. Also conductive effects are taken into account. The fluid is air and properties are assumed as function of temperature. Ribs of the same material of the channel walls are introduced and several arrangements are analyzed. The investigation is accomplished by means of the commercial code Fluent. A turbulence model is used. Results are presented in terms of temperature and velocity fields, average heat transfer coefficients, friction factor profiles and pressure drops. The aim of this study is to find arrangement of ribs such to give high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops. The maximum Nusselt number and friction factor have been detected for dimensionless pitches equal, respectively, to 12 and 10.

A Two-Dimensional Numerical Investigation on Forced Convection in Channels With Transversal Ribs

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Manca ◽  
S. Nardini ◽  
D. Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Friction Factor ◽  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Wall Turbulence ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Conventional sources of energy have been depleting at an alarming rate, which makes future sustainable development of energy use very difficult. Thus, heat transfer enhancement technology plays an important role and it has been widely applied to many applications as in refrigeration, automotive, process industry and solar energy heater. Convective heat transfer can be enhanced passively by changing flow geometry, boundary conditions or by increasing thermal conductivity of the fluid. Another possibility for increasing heat transfer with gas is to employ extended surfaces. Transversal ribs in a channel work as fins, increasing the heat transfer area and break the laminar sub-layer creating local wall turbulence. The heat transfer rate is improved but pressure drops increased as well. In this paper a numerical investigation is carried out on forced convection in channels heated by a constant heat flux. Also conductive effects are taken into account. The fluid is air and properties are assumed as function of temperature and flow is turbulent. Ribs of the same material of the channel walls are introduced and several arrangements and shapes are analyzed. The investigation is accomplished by means of the Fluent code. Results are presented in terms of temperature and velocity fields, average heat transfer coefficients and friction factor profiles. The aim of this study is to find arrangement of ribs such to give high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops. The maximum Nusselt number and friction factor have been detected for dimensionless pitches equal, respectively, to 12 and 10 for square and rectangular ribs, 10 and 8, for triangular ones.

Heat Transfer Analysis of Microgrooved Evaporator and Condenser Surfaces Utilized in a High Heat Flux Two-Phase Flow Loop

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edvin Cetegen ◽  
Thomas Baummer ◽  
Serguei Dessiatoun ◽  
Michael Ohadi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Microgrooved Surface

This paper investigates the heat transfer and pressure drop analysis of micro grooved surfaces utilized in evaporators and condensers of a two-phase flow cooling loop. These devices utilize the vapor-liquid phase change to transfer large amounts of heat, and they offer substantially higher heat flux performance with lower pumping power than most liquid cooling technologies. Microgrooved surfaces, combined with force-fed evaporation and condensation technology discussed in this paper yield high heat transfer coefficients with low pressure drops. Our most recent results, aiming to test the limits of the technology, demonstrated dissipation of almost 1kW/cm2 from silicon electronics using HFE 7100 as the working fluid. In a compact two phase system, the heat generated by the electronic components can be absorbed by microgrooved evaporators and rejected through the microgrooved surface condensers to liquid cooled slots with high heat transfer coefficients and low pressure drops on the refrigerant side. In the case of air-cooling, the same microgrooved surface heat exchanger can reject heat with a heat transfer coefficient of 3847 W/cm2 and a pressure drop of 4156 Pa. These heat transfer processes have the added capability of being combined and used together in a self-contained system cooled either by liquid or air.

scholarly journals Numerical Analysis of Water Forced Convection in Channels with Differently Shaped Transverse Ribs

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oronzio Manca ◽  
Sergio Nardini ◽  
Daniele Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Constant Heat Flux ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Friction Factors ◽  
Turbulent Water

Heat transfer enhancement technology has the aim of developing more efficient systems as demanded in many applications. An available passive method is represented by the employ of rough surfaces. Transversal turbulators enhance the heat transfer rate by reducing the thermal resistance near surfaces, because of the improved local turbulence; on the other hand, higher losses are expected. In this paper, a numerical investigation is carried out on turbulent water forced convection in a ribbed channel. Its external walls are heated by a constant heat flux. Several arrangements of ribs in terms of height, width, and shape are analyzed. The aim is to find the optimal configuration in terms of high heat transfer coefficients and low losses. The maximum average Nusselt numbers are evaluated for dimensionless pitches of 6, 8, and 10 according to the shape while the maximum friction factors are in the range of pitches from 8 to 10.

An Analytical Study of the Optimized Performance of an Impingement Heat Sink

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Sathe ◽  
B. G. Sammakia
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Through

The results of a study of a new and unique high-performance air-cooled impingement heat sink are presented. An extensive numerical investigation of the heat sink performance is conducted and is verified by experimental data. The study is relevant to cooling of high-power chips and modules in air-cooled environments and applies to workstations or mainframes. In the study, a rectangular jet impinges on a set of parallel fins and then turns into cross flow. The effects of the fin thickness, gap nozzle width and fin shape on the heat transfer and pressure drop are investigated. It is found that pressure drop is reduced by cutting the fins in the central impingement zone without sacrificing the heat transfer due to a reduction in the extent of the stagnant zone. A combination of fin thicknesses of the order of 0.5 mm and channel gaps of 0.8 mm with appropriate central cutout yielded heat transfer coefficients over 1500 W/m2 K at a pressure drop of less than 100 N/m2, as is typically available in high-end workstations. A detailed study of flow-through heat sinks subject to the same constraints as the impingement heat sink showed that the flow-through heat sink could not achieve the high heat transfer coefficients at a low pressure drop.

Spatial and Temporal Wall Temperature Fluctuations in Two-Phase Flow in Microgap Coolers

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Sheehan ◽  
Avram Bar-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Volumetric Cooling ◽  
Very High

Heat transfer to an evaporating refrigerant and/or dielectric liquid in a microgap channel can provide very high heat transfer coefficients and volumetric cooling rates. Recent studies at Maryland have established the dominance of the annular flow regime in such microgap channels and related the observed high-quality peak of an M-shaped heat transfer coefficient curve to the onset of local dryout. The present study utilizes infrared thermography to locate such nascent dryout regions and operating conditions. Data obtained with a 210 micron microgap channel, operated with a mass flux of 195.2 kg/m2-s and heat fluxes of 10.3 to 26 W/cm2 are presented and discussed.

The Thickness of the Liquid Microlayer Between a Cap-Shaped Sliding Bubble and a Heated Wall: Experimental Measurements

2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (9) ◽  
pp. 934-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Li ◽  
D. Keith Hollingsworth ◽  
Larry C. Witte
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heated Wall ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Laser Probe ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Spherical Bubbles

A laser-based method has been developed to measure the thickness of the liquid microlayer between a cap-shaped sliding bubble and an inclined heated wall. Sliding vapor bubbles are known to create high heat transfer coefficients along the surfaces against which they slide. The details of this process remain unclear and depend on the evolution of the microlayer that forms between the bubble and the surface. Past experiments have used heat transfer measurements on uniform-heat-generation surfaces to infer the microlayer thickness through an energy balance. These studies have produced measurements of 20–100 μm for refrigerants and for water, but they have yet to be confirmed by a direct measurement that does not depend on a first-law closure. The results presented here are direct measurements of the microlayer thickness made from a reflectance-based fiber-optic laser probe. Details of the construction and calibration of the probe are presented. Data for saturated FC-87 and a uniform-temperature surface inclined at 2 deg to 15 deg from the horizontal are reported. Millimeter-sized spherical bubbles of FC-87 vapor were injected near the lower end of a uniformly heated aluminum plate. The laser probe yielded microlayer thicknesses of 22–55 μm for cap-shaped bubbles. Bubble Reynolds numbers range from 600 to 4800, Froude numbers from 0.9 to 1.7, and Weber numbers from 2.6 to 47. The microlayer thickness above cap-shaped bubbles was correlated to a function of inclination angle and a bubble shape factor. The successful correlation suggests that this data set can be used to validate the results of detailed models of the microlayer dynamics.

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