Heat Transfer Characteristics of Gaseous Flows in Micro-Channels With Constant Wall Temperature: Cooled From Walls

Author(s):  
Chungpyo Hong ◽  
Yutaka Asako

Two-dimensional compressible momentum and energy equations are solved to obtain the heat transfer characteristics of gaseous flows in micro-channels with CWT (constant wall temperature) whose temperature is lower than the inlet temperature. The combined effect of viscous dissipation and compressibility is also investigated. The numerical methodology is based on the Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method. The stagnation temperature is fixed at 300K and the computations were done for the wall temperature of 250K, 280K, and 290K. The bulk temperature based on the static temperature and the total temperature are compared with those of the heated case and also compared with those of the incompressible flow in a conventional sized channel. The identical heat transfer coefficients are obtained for both heated and cooled cases of the incompressible flow. However, in the case of the gaseous flow in micro-channels, different heat transfer coefficients are obtained for each heated and cooled case. A correlation for the prediction of the heat transfer rate of the gaseous flow in the micro-channel is proposed.

Author(s):  
F. Gori ◽  
M. Borgia ◽  
A. Doro Altan

Experimental tests have been carried out to evaluate the heat transfer characteristics on an externally finned cylinder impinged by a jet flow of air. The cylinder is internally heated with an electric system. Thermocouples located inside the cylinder allow to evaluate the wall temperature distribution, in order to calculate the local and average convective heat transfer coefficients.


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
A.A. Avramenko ◽  
M.M. Kovetskaya ◽  
E.A. Kondratieva ◽  
T.V. Sorokina

The paper presents results of the modelling of heat transfer at film boiling of a liquid in a porous medium on a vertical heated wall. Such processes are observed at cooling of high-temperature surfaces of heat pipes, microstructural radiators etc. Heating conditions at the wall were the constant wall temperature or heat flux. An analytical solution was obtained for the problem of fluid flow and heat transfer using the porous medium model in the Darcy-Brinkman. It was shown that heat transfer at film boiling in a porous medium was less intensive than in the absence of a porous medium (free fluid flow) and further decreased with the decreasing permeability of the porous medium. A sharp decrease in heat transfer was observed for the Darcy numbers lower than five. The analytical predictions of heat transfer coefficients qualitatively agreed with the data [14] though demonstrated lower values of heat transfer coefficients for the conditions of the constant wall temperature and constant wall heat flux.


Author(s):  
Sehwan In ◽  
Sangkwon Jeong

This paper describes the flow boiling heat transfer of R123/R134a mixture in a single round micro-channel with 0.19 mm ID. The flow boiling heat transfer coefficients were measured with the variation of mixture composition (R123 mole fraction: 0.502, 0.746) at various experimental conditions: mass velocities (314, 392, 470 kg/m2-s), heat fluxes (10, 15, 20 kW/m2) and vapor qualities (0.2–0.85). The heat transfer characteristics of R123/R134a mixture are similar to those of pure R123 observed in the previous flow boiling experiment. The similarity of heat transfer characteristics denotes that the heat transfer is governed by evaporation of thin liquid film around the elongated bubbles like the case of pure R123. The heat transfer coefficients of R123/R134a mixture are compared with those of equivalent pure refrigerant by the correlation developed from pure R123 experimental results. The large reduction of heat transfer coefficients compared with pure refrigerant is found in micro-channels flow boiling by the mass transfer effect of mixed refrigerant. In addition, macro-channel correlations for mixed refrigerant do not make accurate prediction about the reduction of heat transfer coefficients.


2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chungpyo Hong ◽  
Takaharu Yamamoto ◽  
Yutaka Asako ◽  
Koichi Suzuki

This paper describes experimental results on heat transfer characteristics of gaseous flow in a microtube with constant wall temperature. The experiments were performed for nitrogen gas flow through three microtubes of 123 μm, 163 μm, and 243 μm in diameter with 50mm in length, respectively. The wall temperature was maintained at 310 K, 330 K, and 350 K by circulating water around the microtube, respectively. The stagnation pressure is chosen in such a way that the exit Mach number ranges from 0.1 to 1.0. The outlet pressure was fixed at the atmospheric condition. The total temperature at the outlet, the inlet stagnation temperature, the mass flow rate, and the inlet pressure were measured. The numerical computations based on the Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method were also performed with the same conditions of the experiment for validation of numerical results. Both the results are in excellent agreement. In some cases, the total temperatures obtained by the present experimental study are higher than the wall temperature. This is due to the additional heat transfer from the wall to the gas near the microtube outlet caused by the temperature fall due to the energy conversion into the kinetic energy. A quantitative correlation for the prediction of the heat transfer rate of the gaseous flow in microtubes which had been proposed in our previous study (Hong and Asako, 2007, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Gaseous Flows in a Microchannel and a Microtube with Constant Wall Temperature,” Numer. Heat Transfer, Part A, 52, pp. 219–238) was validated.


Author(s):  
Sushant Dhiman ◽  
Savas Yavuzkurt

An iterative conjugate heat transfer technique has been developed to predict the temperatures on film cooled surfaces such as flat plates and turbine blades. Conventional approaches using a constant wall temperature to calculate heat transfer coefficient and applying it to solid as a boundary condition can result in errors around 14% in uncooled blade temperatures. This indicates a need for conjugate heat transfer calculation techniques. However, full conjugate calculations also suffer from inability to correctly predict heat transfer coefficients in the near field of film cooling holes and require high computational cost making them impractical for component design in industrial applications. Iterative conjugate heat transfer (ICHT) analysis is a compromise between these two techniques where the external flow convection and internal blade conduction are loosely coupled. The solution obtained from solving one domain is used as boundary condition for the other. This process is iterated until convergence. Flow and heat transfer over a film cooled blade is not solved directly and instead convective heat transfer coefficients resulting from external convection on a similar blade without film cooling and under the same flow conditions are corrected by use of experimental data to incorporate the effect of film cooling in the heat transfer coefficients. The effect of conjugate heat transfer is taken into account by using this iterative technique. Unlike full conjugate heat transfer (CHT) the ICHT analysis doesn’t require solving a large number of linear algebraic equations at once. It uses two separate meshes for external convection and blade conduction and thus problem can be solved in lesser time using less computational resources. A demonstration of this technique using a commercial CFD solver FLUENT is presented for simulations of film cooling on flat plates. Results are presented in form of film cooling heat transfer coefficients and surface temperature distribution which are compared with results obtained from conventional approach. For uncooled surfaces, the deviations were as high as 3.5% between conjugate and conventional technique results for the wall temperature. For film cooling simulations on a flat plate using the ICHT approach showed deviations up to 10% in surface temperature compared to constant wall temperature technique for a high temperature difference case and 3% for a low temperature difference case, since surface temperature is not constant over the surface when conjugate heat transfer is considered. Results show that conjugate heat transfer effect is significant for film cooling flows involving high temperature differences for the current blade materials and application of film cooling correction obtained from experimental data is very useful in obtaining realistic blade temperatures.


Author(s):  
Wenhai Li ◽  
Ken Alabi ◽  
Foluso Ladeinde

Over the years, empirical correlations have been developed for predicting saturated flow boiling [1–15] and condensation [16–30] heat transfer coefficients inside horizontal/vertical tubes or micro-channels. In the present work, we have examined 30 of these models, and modified many of them for use in compact plate-fin heat exchangers. However, the various correlations, which have been developed for pipes and ducts, have been modified in our work to make them applicable to extended fin surfaces. The various correlations have been used in a low-order, one-dimensional, finite-volume type numerical integration of the flow and heat transfer equations in heat exchangers. The NIST’s REFPROP database [31] is used to account for the large variations in the fluid thermo-physical properties during phase change. The numerical results are compared with Yara’s experimental data [32]. The validity of the various boiling and condensation models for a real plate-fin heat exchanger design is discussed. The results show that some of the modified boiling and condensation correlations can provide acceptable prediction of heat transfer coefficient for two-phase flows in compact plate-fin heat exchangers.


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