Local Heat Transfer Coefficient During Condensation in a 0.8 mm Diameter Pipe

Author(s):  
Alberto Cavallini ◽  
Davide Del Col ◽  
Marko Matkovic ◽  
Luisa Rossetto

The first preliminary tests carried on a new experimental rig for measurement of the local heat transfer coefficient inside a circular 0.8 mm diameter minichannel are presented in this paper. The heat transfer coefficient is measured during condensation of R134a and is obtained from the measurement of the heat flux and the direct gauge of the saturation and wall temperatures. The heat flux is derived from the water temperature profile along the channel, in order to get local values for the heat transfer coefficient. The test section has been designed so as to reduce thermal disturbances and experimental uncertainty. A brief insight into the design and the construction of the test rig is reported in the paper. The apparatus has been designed for experimental tests both in condensation and vaporization, in a wide range of operating conditions and for a wide selection of refrigerants.

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Myeonggeun Choi ◽  
David M. Dyrda ◽  
David R. H. Gillespie ◽  
Orpheas Tapanlis ◽  
Leo V. Lewis

As a key way of improving jet engine performance, a thermal tip clearance control system provides a robust means of manipulating the closure between the casing and the rotating blade tips, reducing undesirable tip leakage flows. This may be achieved using an impingement cooling scheme on the external casing. Such systems can be optimized to increase the contraction capability for a given casing cooling flow. Typically, this is achieved by changing the cooled area and local casing features, such as the external flanges or the external cooling geometry. This paper reports the effectiveness of a range of impingement cooling arrangements in typical engine casing closure system. The effects of jet-to-jet pitch, number of jets, and inline and staggered alignment of jets on an engine representative casing geometry are assessed through comparison of the convective heat transfer coefficient distributions as well as the thermal closure at the point of the casing liner attachment. The investigation is primarily numerical, however, a baseline case has been validated experimentally in tests using a transient liquid crystal technique. Steady numerical simulations using the realizable k–ε, k–ω SST, and EARSM turbulence models were conducted to understand the variation in the predicted local heat transfer coefficient distribution. A constant mass flow rate was used as a constraint at each engine condition, approximately corresponding to a constant feed pressure when the manifold exit area is constant. Sets of local heat transfer coefficient data generated using a consistent modeling approach were then used to create reduced order distributions of the local cooling. These were used in a thermomechanical model to predict the casing closure at engine representative operating conditions.


Author(s):  
Myeonggeun Choi ◽  
David M. Dyrda ◽  
David R. H. Gillespie ◽  
Orpheas Tapanlis ◽  
Leo V. Lewis

As a key way of improving jet engine performance, a thermal tip clearance control system provides a robust means of manipulating the closure between the casing and the rotating blade tips, reducing undesirable tip leakage flows. This may be achieved using an impingement cooling scheme on the external casing. Such systems can be optimized to increase the contraction capability for a given casing cooling flow. Typically this is achieved by changing the cooled area, local casing features such as the external flanges, or the external cooling geometry. This paper reports the effectiveness of a range of impingement cooling arrangements in typical engine casing closure system. The effects of jet-to-jet pitch, number of jets, inline and staggered alignment of jets, on an engine representative casing geometry are assessed through comparison of the convective heat transfer coefficient distributions as well as the thermal closure at the point of the casing liner attachment. The investigation is primarily numerical, however, a baseline case has been validated experimentally in tests using a transient liquid crystal technique. Steady numerical simulations using the realizable k-ε, k-ω SST and EARSM turbulence models were conducted to understand the variation in the predicted local heat transfer coefficient distribution. Constant mass flow rate was used as a constraint at each engine condition, this approximately pertaining to a constant feed pressure when the manifold exit area is constant. Sets of local heat transfer coefficient data generated using a consistent modelling approach were then used to create reduced order distributions of the local cooling. These were used in a thermo-mechanical model to predict the casing closure at engine representative operating conditions.


Author(s):  
Joshua L. Nickerson ◽  
Martin Cerza ◽  
Sonia M. F. Garcia

The solution of the heat conduction equation in the liquid layer beneath a moving bubble’s base and the resulting local heat transfer coefficient are presented. An analytical model was constructed using separation of variables to solve the heat conduction equation for the thermal profile in the liquid film beneath the base of a bubble moving through a microchannel at a given velocity. Differentiating the resulting liquid thermal profile and applying the standard definition for the local heat transfer coefficient resulted in a solution for local heat transfer coefficient as a function of bubble length. Analysis included varying pertinent parameters such as film thickness beneath the bubble base, wall heat flux, and superheated temperature in the microchannel. Water and FC-72 were analyzed as prospective coolant fluids. Analytical data revealed that as the superheated temperature in the microchannel increases, local heat transfer coefficients increase and arrive at a higher steady-state value. Increasing wall heat flux achieved the same result, while increasing film thickness resulted in lower heat transfer coefficients. The model indicated that water had superior performance as a coolant, provided the dielectric fluid (FC-72) is not mandated.


1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 361-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Turnbull ◽  
P. Oosthuizen

A one-dimensional analytical solution has been derived for unsteady heat conduction within a semi infinite body, of high thermal resistance, that is subject to a surface heat flux that varies periodically with time. The heat flux is assumed to be generated within a thin isothermal coating. The model predicts that a phase delay will develop between the heat flux and the coating thermal response. This phase delay is independent upon the material properties of the substrate and coating, on the heat flux driving frequency, and on the local heat transfer, coefficient. With the exception of this last quantity the other parameters are known a priori, hence if the phase delay can be measured experimentally it can then be used to determine the local heat transfer coefficient. Absolute values of the local coating temperature and local heat flux are not required. Hence calibration of the devices for measuring these quantities should not be required. In contrast to the overall surface temperature, it is predicted that the phase delay angle will attain a steady-state value within a few heat flux cycles, thus reducing the time required obtaining a measurement. Furthermore, the one-dimensional mathematical model that has been developed reduces to those used in previous experimentally validated techniques, when appropriate constants in the boundary condition are used.


1962 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Fand ◽  
J. Roos ◽  
P. Cheng ◽  
J. Kaye

In order to achieve a better understanding of the physical mechanism of interaction between free convection and sound, an experimental investigation of the local heat-transfer coefficient around the circumference of a heated horizontal cylinder, both in the presence and absence of a strong stationary sound field, has been carried out. The results show that superposition of intense sound upon the free-convection temperature-velocity field about a heated horizontal cylinder increases the heat-transfer coefficient both on the under and upper portions of the cylinder’s surface. In the presence of a sound field for which SPL = 146 db (re 0.0002 microbar) and f = 1500 cps, the maximum measured increases in the local heat-transfer coefficient on the under and upper portions of a 3/4-in-diam cylinder—relative to the free convection case at the same temperature potential—were found to be approximately 250 and 1200 per cent, respectively. A comparison of these results with earlier flow-visualization studies indicates that the relatively large percentage increase in the heat-transfer coefficient on the upper portion of the cylinder is caused by the oscillating vortex flow which is characteristic of thermoacoustic streaming. The reasons for the increase in the heat-transfer coefficient on the lower portion of the cylinder appear to be: (a) An increase in laminar boundary-layer velocities (steady components) in this region; and (b) modification of the boundary-layer temperature profile due to acoustically induced oscillations (unsteady components) within the laminar boundary layer. The experimental data presented can be used to check the validity of future analytical investigations of thermoacoustic phenomena.


1971 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Turner

This paper presents an experimental method for determining the variation of the local heat transfer coefficient around gas turbine blades. The method involves the accurate determination of the distribution of metal surface temperature and the heat transfer coefficient and air coolant temperature in the internal cooling passages of the blade. It is shown that from the solution of Laplace's equation and a numerical differentiation at the blade surface of the resulting two-dimensional temperature field an estimate can be made of the normal temperature gradient in the metal which can be related directly to the local heat transfer coefficient at any point of the blade periphery. The results of experiments on a cascade blade undertaken to demonstrate the method are presented. These results show a clear laminar–turbulent transition on the convex surface of the blade but no transition, as such, is indicated on the concave surface. The magnitude of turbulence in the main stream is shown to have a very marked effect both on the mean level of heat transfer to the blade and on the local variation of the heat transfer coefficient.


Author(s):  
Alberto Cavallini ◽  
Stefano Bortolin ◽  
Davide Del Col ◽  
Marko Matkovic ◽  
Luisa Rossetto

This paper describes a new experimental apparatus for the measurement of the local heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling inside a 0.96 mm internal diameter single round cross section minichannel and reports preliminary heat transfer data taken during flow boiling of R134a. As a peculiar characteristic of the present technique, the heat transfer coefficient is not measured by imposing the heat flux; instead, the boiling process is governed by controlling the inlet temperature of the heating secondary fluid. This paper also presents a methodology to determine the critical conditions during the flow boiling process when no heat flux is imposed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 34-35 ◽  
pp. 576-581
Author(s):  
Zi Cheng Hu ◽  
Hu Gen Ma ◽  
Xin Nan Song ◽  
Qian Wang

Experiments were conducted to investigate the saturated flow boiling heat transfer characteristics in single micro tube using environmentally acceptable refrigerant mixtures R32 and R134a. Local heat transfer coefficient was measured and boiling heat transfer mechanisms were discussed for a range of heat flux (3-65 kW/m2) , mass flux (860-4816 kg/m2•s) and quality (0-0.9). These characteristics indicated that the local heat transfer coefficient was greatly dependent of heat flux and independent of mass flux and quality in the nucleate boiling regime, which was oppsite to that in forced convection regime, and deterioration of boiling heat transfer occurred in the local dry-out regime. In addition, a correlation for nucleate dominant boiling in micro tube was developed ,which included the effects of heat flux and fluid property and showed some success with the data of this study within a 20% random error band.


2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Bohdal ◽  
Henryk Charun ◽  
Małgorzata Sikora

Abstract The present paper describes the results of experimental investigations of heat transfer during condensation of R134a, R404A and R407C in pipe minichannels with internal diameters 0.31-3.30 mm. The results concern investigations of the local heat transfer coefficient. The results were compared with the correlations proposed by other authors. Within the range of examined parameters of the condensation process in minichannels made of stainless steel, it was established that the values of the heat transfer coefficient may be described with Akers et al., Mikielewicz and Shah correlations within a limited range of the mass flux density of the refrigerant and the minichannel diameter. On the basis of experimental investigations, the authors proposed their own correlation for the calculation of local heat transfer coefficient.


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