Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulation in Gaseous Flow Micro Heat Exchanger

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Croce ◽  
Michele A. Coppola
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Slip Flow ◽  
Heat Sinks ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Micro Heat Exchanger ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Numerical Solver

An extended numerical analysis is performed in order to characterize the combined effect of compressibility, rarefaction and conjugate heat transfer (CHT) in counter current and parallel flow micro heat exchanger. Relatively short microchannel geometries are considered, leading to more significant dependence on compressibility and rarefaction effects. A fully compressible numerical solver, coupled with proper slip flow and temperature jump boundary conditions, previously extensively used for CHT computation in microchannel heat sinks, is adopted: thus, viscous dissipation is always taken into account and a wide range of channel exit Mach numbers can be considered, keeping Knudsen number within the limits of slip flow. A comprehensive range of fluid/solid thermal conductivity ratios, pressure ratios, temperature difference and channel aspect ratios are considered, in order to identify the dominant effects, as well as the optimal fluid/solid conductivity ratio, as a function of the heat exchanger design and operating parameters. Results are described in terms of heat exchanger efficiency and local Nusselt number.

A Review of Micro Heat Exchanger Flow Physics, Fabrication Methods and Applications

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Jerry Bowman ◽  
Daniel Maynes
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Design Optimization ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Micro Heat Exchanger ◽  
The Subject

Abstract A review of the literature in the area of micro heat exchangers is presented to provide a concise overview of the recent advances in this field of study. The review is divided into six sections. The first section reviews research focused on understanding friction and heat transfer in microchannels. The second section deals with heat exchanger design, optimization and comparison studies. The third section deals with fabrication methods used for constructing micro heat exchangers. The fourth section reviews applications of micro heat exchangers. The last two sections of the paper deal with miscellaneous topics and other reviews on the subject. The total review focuses on advances made after the early 1990’s.

scholarly journals Curved Surface Minijet Impingement Phenomena Analysed with ζ-f Turbulence Model

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1846
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kura ◽  
Elzbieta Fornalik-Wajs ◽  
Jan Wajs ◽  
Sasa Kenjeres
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Turbulence Model ◽  
Convex Surface ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Jet Impingement ◽  
Flat Surfaces ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Single Jet

The jet impingement phenomenon plays an important role among the heat transfer intensification methods. Very often its application and analyses refer to simple flat surfaces, while there is a lack of information in the literature for cases addressing curved surfaces. In the present work, the single jet impingement on the non-flat (concave and convex) surface is studied for a wide range of geometries, which originate from the mini-jet heat-exchanger design. The numerical simulations were performed by an advanced ζ-f turbulence model implemented in the open-source OpenFOAM (ESI-OpenCFD Ltd, Bracknell, United Kingdom) code. Noticeable differences in the phenomena occurring on the convex and concave surfaces were identified in the stagnation zone. Besides, the existence and location of the secondary peak in the Nusselt number distribution differed between the cases. These distributions were influenced by the shape of geometry, which determined flow characteristics and resulting heat transfer performance. The origins of these differences were looked at in the turbulence characteristics close to the impinged surface of the stagnations zone and its vicinity, where turbulence kinetic energy and enstrophy were analysed. It was stated that the differences are already noticeable for the single jet impingement case, but they might sum up when multiple jets are considered. Therefore, here presented results would be important for the analysis of the overall unit of mentioned mini-jets heat-exchanger.

Heat Exchanger Design Methodology for Electronic Heat Sinks

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (7) ◽  
pp. 899-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph L. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Heat Sinks ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Electronic Heat

This paper discusses the “inlet temperature difference” (ITD) based heat-exchanger (and its variants) design methodology frequently used by designers of electronic heat sinks. This is at variance with the accepted methodology recommended in standard heat-exchanger textbooks—the “log-mean temperature difference,” or the equivalent ε-NTU design method. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and discuss the ITD based design methodology. The paper shows that the ITD based method is an approximation at best. Variants of the method can lead to either under- or overprediction of the heat transfer rate. Its shortcomings are evaluated and designers are directed to the well established and accepted design methodology.

scholarly journals A Hybrid Numerical Methodology Based on CFD and Porous Medium for Thermal Performance Evaluation of Gas to Gas Micro Heat Exchanger

Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danish Rehman ◽  
Jojomon Joseph ◽  
Gian Luca Morini ◽  
Michel Delanaye ◽  
Juergen Brandner
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Heat Transfer Analysis ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Micro Heat Exchanger ◽  
Parallel Microchannels

In micro heat exchangers, due to the presence of distributing and collecting manifolds as well as hundreds of parallel microchannels, a complete conjugate heat transfer analysis requires a large amount of computational power. Therefore in this study, a novel methodology is developed to model the microchannels as a porous medium where a compressible gas is used as a working fluid. With the help of such a reduced model, a detailed flow analysis through individual microchannels can be avoided by studying the device as a whole at a considerably less computational cost. A micro heat exchanger with 133 parallel microchannels (average hydraulic diameter of 200 μ m) in both cocurrent and counterflow configurations is investigated in the current study. Hot and cold streams are separated by a stainless-steel partition foil having a thickness of 100 μ m. Microchannels have a rectangular cross section of 200 μ m × 200 μ m with a wall thickness of 100 μ m in between. As a first step, a numerical study for conjugate heat transfer analysis of microchannels only, without distributing and collecting manifolds is performed. Mass flow inside hot and cold fluid domains is increased such that inlet Reynolds number for both domains remains within the laminar regime. Inertial and viscous coefficients extracted from this study are then utilized to model pressure and temperature trends within the porous medium model. To cater for the density dependence of inertial and viscous coefficients due to the compressible nature of gas flow in microchannels, a modified formulation of Darcy–Forschheimer law is adopted. A complete model of a double layer micro heat exchanger with collecting and distributing manifolds where microchannels are modeled as the porous medium is finally developed and used to estimate the overall heat exchanger effectiveness of the investigated micro heat exchanger. A comparison of computational results using proposed hybrid methodology with previously published experimental results of the same micro heat exchanger showed that adopted methodology can predict the heat exchanger effectiveness within the experimental uncertainty for both cocurrent and counterflow configurations.

scholarly journals Experimental analysis and ANN prediction on performances of finned oval-tube heat exchanger under different air inlet angles with limited experimental data

Open Physics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 968-980
Author(s):  
Xueping Du ◽  
Zhijie Chen ◽  
Qi Meng ◽  
Yang Song
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Correlation Equation ◽  
Tube Heat Exchanger ◽  
Flow Friction ◽  
Air Inlet ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Oval Tube

Abstract A high accuracy of experimental correlations on the heat transfer and flow friction is always expected to calculate the unknown cases according to the limited experimental data from a heat exchanger experiment. However, certain errors will occur during the data processing by the traditional methods to obtain the experimental correlations for the heat transfer and friction. A dimensionless experimental correlation equation including angles is proposed to make the correlation have a wide range of applicability. Then, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used to predict the heat transfer and flow friction performances of a finned oval-tube heat exchanger under four different air inlet angles with limited experimental data. The comparison results of ANN prediction with experimental correlations show that the errors from the ANN prediction are smaller than those from the classical correlations. The data of the four air inlet angles fitted separately have higher precisions than those fitted together. It is demonstrated that the ANN approach is more useful than experimental correlations to predict the heat transfer and flow resistance characteristics for unknown cases of heat exchangers. The results can provide theoretical support for the application of the ANN used in the finned oval-tube heat exchanger performance prediction.

Unsteady Conjugate Heat Transfer Investigation of a Multistage Steam Turbine in Warm-Keeping Operation With Hot Air

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Łuczyński ◽  
Dennis Toebben ◽  
Manfred Wirsum ◽  
Wolfgang F. D. Mohr ◽  
Klaus Helbig
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Angle Of Incidence ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Hot Air ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Vortex Systems ◽  
Operating Points

In recent decades, the rising share of commonly subsidized renewable energy especially affects the operational strategy of conventional power plants. In pursuit of flexibility improvements, extension of life cycle, in addition to a reduction in start-up time, General Electric has developed a product to warm-keep high/intermediate pressure steam turbines using hot air. In order to optimize the warm-keeping operation and to gain knowledge about the dominant heat transfer phenomena and flow structures, detailed numerical investigations are required. Considering specific warm-keeping operating conditions characterized by high turbulent flows, it is required to conduct calculations based on time-consuming unsteady conjugate heat transfer (CHT) simulations. In order to investigate the warm-keeping process as found in the presented research, single and multistage numerical turbine models were developed. Furthermore, an innovative calculation approach called the Equalized Timescales Method (ET) was applied for the modeling of unsteady conjugate heat transfer (CHT). The unsteady approach improves the accuracy of the stationary simulations and enables the determination of the multistage turbine models. In the course of the research, two particular input variables of the ET approach — speed up factor (SF) and time step (TS) — have been additionally investigated with regard to their high impact on the calculation time and the quality of the results. Using the ET method, the mass flow rate and the rotational speed were varied to generate a database of warm-keeping operating points. The main goal of this work is to provide a comprehensive knowledge of the flow field and heat transfer in a wide range of turbine warm-keeping operations and to characterize the flow patterns observed at these operating points. For varying values of flow coefficient and angle of incidence, the secondary flow phenomena change from well-known vortex systems occurring in design operation (such as passage, horseshoe and corner vortices) to effects typical for windage, like patterns of alternating vortices and strong backflows. Furthermore, the identified flow patterns have been compared to vortex systems described in cited literature and summarized in the so-called blade vortex diagram. The comparison of heat transfer in the form of charts showing the variation of the Nusselt-numbers with respect to changes in angle of incidence and flow coefficients at specific operating points is additionally provided.

scholarly journals A Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of a Triangular Finned Annulus Based on DG-FEM

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ishaq ◽  
Khalid Saifullah Syed ◽  
Zafar Iqbal ◽  
Ahmad Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Heat Transfer Analysis ◽  
Conductivity Ratio ◽  
Geometric Configurations ◽  
Specific Configuration ◽  
Double Pipe ◽  
Pipe Heat

A DG-FEM based numerical investigation has been performed to explore the influence of the various geometric configurations on the thermal performance of the conjugate heat transfer analysis in the triangular finned double pipe heat exchanger. The computed results dictate that Nusselt number in general rises with values of the conductivity ratio of solid and fluid, for the specific configuration parameters considered here. However, the performance of these parameters shows strong influence on the conductivity ratio. Consequently, these parameters must be selected in consideration of the thermal resistance, for better design of heat exchanger.

Shellside Waterflow Pressure Drop Distribution Measurements in an Industrial-Sized Test Heat Exchanger

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Halle ◽  
J. M. Chenoweth ◽  
M. W. Wambsganss
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Power Requirement ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Pressure Losses ◽  
Finned Tubes ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Isothermal Water

Throughout the life of a heat exchanger, a significant part of the operating cost arises from pumping the heat transfer fluids through and past the tubes. The pumping power requirement is continuous and depends directly upon the magnitude of the pressure losses. Thus, in order to select an optimum heat exchanger design, it is is as important to be able to predict pressure drop accurately as it is to predict heat transfer. This paper presents experimental measurements of the shellside pressure drop for 24 different segmentally baffled bundle configurations in a 0.6-m (24-in.) diameter by 3.7-m (12-ft) long shell with single inlet and outlet nozzles. Both plain and finned tubes, nominally 19-mm (0.75-in.) outside diameter, were arranged on equilateral triangular, square, rotated triangular, and rotated square tube layouts with a tube pitch-to-diameter ratio of 1.25. Isothermal water tests for a range of Reynolds numbers from 7000 to 100,000 were run to measure overall as well as incremental pressure drops across sections of the exchanger. The experimental results are given and correlated with a pressure drop versus flowrate relationship.

scholarly journals Two conjugate convection boundary-layers of counter forced flow

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 835-846
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mosaad
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Layers ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Transfer Problem ◽  
Forced Flow ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Counter Flow ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Convection Boundary ◽  
Laminar Forced Convection

In this study, the conjugate heat transfer problem of two laminar forced convection boundary-layers of counter flow on the opposite sides of a conductive wall is analyzed by employing the integral method. The analysis is conducted in a dimensionless framework to generalize the solution. The dimensionless parameters affecting the thermal interaction between the two convection layers are deduced from the analysis. These parameters give a measure of the relative importance of interactive heat transfer modes. Mean Nusselt number data are obtained for a wide range of the main affecting parameters.

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