Conjugate Heat Transfer in a Rotor-Stator System With Through-Flow

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reby Roy ◽  
B. V. S. S. S. Prasad ◽  
S. Srinivasa Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Layer Thickness ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Rotating Disk ◽  
Thermal Boundary Layer Thickness ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Through Flow

The conjugate heat transfer in a stationary cylindrical cavity with a rotating disk and fluid through-flow is analysed at various rotational speeds ranging from 10000 to 50000 rpm by using a finite volume commercial code. The numerical model and code are validated for a problem, which involves rotation and fluid through-flow. A reduction of the thermal boundary layer thickness and increase in the heat transfer coefficients are observed with increase in the rotational speed. Marked differences are noticed between the Nusselt numbers obtained from the conjugate and constant temperature analyses.

Heat Transfer Measurements and Numerical Simulations in the Cooling of a Circular Cylinder by a Slot Jet of Air

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Gori ◽  
I. Petracci
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Convective Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Convective Heat Transfer Coefficients

The present paper reports heat transfer measurements on a circular cylinder, electrically heated, and cooled by a slot jet of air. The diameter of the cylinder is equal to the slot height. Temperature measurements in five positions along the circumference of the circular cylinder, allow the evaluation of the convective heat transfer coefficients or Nusselt numbers at several Reynolds numbers. The Nusselt numbers are compared with the corresponding results in uniform flow around a circular cylinder. The experiments have been performed at several distances from the slot jet exit and different Reynolds numbers. Numerical simulations have been carried out with a commercial code.

Heat Transfer in a Surfactant Drag-Reducing Solution—A Comparison With Predictions for Laminar Flow

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (6) ◽  
pp. 557-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Sears ◽  
Libing Yang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Laminar Flow ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
High Heat ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Drag Reducing Additive ◽  
Good Agreement

Heat transfer coefficients were measured for a solution of surfactant drag-reducing additive in the entrance region of a uniformly heated horizontal cylindrical pipe with Reynolds numbers from 25,000 to 140,000 and temperatures from 30to70°C. In the absence of circumferential buoyancy effects, the measured Nusselt numbers were found to be in good agreement with theoretical results for laminar flow. Buoyancy effects, manifested as substantially higher Nusselt numbers, were seen in experiments carried out at high heat flux.

Comparison of a Conventional Thermal Analysis of a Turbine Cascade to a Full Conjugate Heat Transfer Computation

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Starke ◽  
Erik Janke ◽  
Toma´sˇ Hofer ◽  
Davide Lengani
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Complex Geometry ◽  
Thermal Analyses ◽  
Turbine Cascade ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Blade Tip ◽  
Transfer Method

Recent development in commercial CFD codes offers possibilities to include the solid body in order to perform conjugate heat transfer computations for complex geometries. The current paper aims to analyse the differences between a conjugate heat transfer computation and conventional uncoupled approaches where a heat transfer coefficient is first derived from a flow solution and then taken as boundary condition for a thermal conduction analysis of the solid part. Whereas the thermal analyses are done with a Rolls-Royce in-house finite element code, the CFD as well as the conjugate heat transfer computation are done using the new version 8 of the commercial code Fine Turbo from Numeca International. The analysed geometry is a turbine cascade that was tested by VKI in Brussels within the European FP6 project AITEB 2. First, the paper presents the aerodynamic results. The pure flow solutions are validated against pressure measurements of the cascade test. Then, the heat transfer from flow computations with wall temperature boundary conditions is compared to the measured heat transfer. Once validated, the heat transfer coefficients are used as boundary condition for three uncoupled thermal analyses of the blade to predict its surface temperatures in a steady state. The results are then compared to a conjugate heat transfer method. Therefore, a mesh of the solid blade was added to the validated flow computation. The paper will present and compare the results of conventional uncoupled thermal analyses with different strategies for the wall boundary condition to results of a conjugate heat transfer computation. As it turns out, the global results are similar but especially the over-tip region with its complex geometry and flow structure and where effective cooling is crucial shows remarkable differences because the conjugate heat transfer solution predicts lower blade tip temperatures. This will be explained by the missing coupling between the fluid and the solid domain.

scholarly journals Heat Transfer Measurements for Rotating Turbine Discs

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Qureshi ◽  
M. H. Nguyen ◽  
N. R. Saad ◽  
R. N. Tadros
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Coolant Flow ◽  
Flow Conditions ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Rotating Disc ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Rotating Discs ◽  
Turbine Disc ◽  
State Technique

To optimise the turbine disc weight and coolant flow requirements, the aspect of improving thermal analysis was investigated. As a consequence, an experimental investigation was undertaken to measure the rates of convective heat transfer. The constant temperature steady state technique was used to determine the local and average heat transfer coefficients on the sides of rotating discs. The effects of coolant flow rates, CW (3000 ≤ CW ≤ 18600) with two types of cavity in-flow conditions and of the rotational speeds, Reθ (from 4×105 to 1.86×106) on the disc heat transfer were studied and correlations developed. For a rotating disc in confined cavities with superimposed coolant flows, Nusselt numbers were found to be higher than those for the free rotating disc without confinement.

Calculation of Disk Temperatures in Gas Turbine Rotor-Stator Cavities Using Conjugate Heat Transfer

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneesh Sridhar Vadvadgi ◽  
Savas Yavuzkurt
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Disk Surface ◽  
Turbine Rotor ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Variable Surface

The present study deals with the numerical modeling of the turbulent flow in a rotor-stator cavity with or without imposed through flow with heat transfer. The commercial finite volume based solver, ANSYS/FLUENT is used to numerically simulate the problem. A conjugate heat transfer approach is used. The study specifically deals with the calculation of the heat transfer coefficients and the temperatures at the disk surfaces. Results are compared with data where available. Conventional approaches which use boundary conditions such as constant wall temperature or constant heat flux in order to calculate the heat transfer coefficients which later are used to calculate disk temperatures can introduce significant errors in the results. The conjugate heat transfer approach can resolve this to a good extent. It includes the effect of variable surface temperature on heat transfer coefficients. Further it is easier to specify more realistic boundary conditions in a conjugate approach since solid and the flow heat transfer problems are solved simultaneously. However this approach incurs a higher computational cost. In this study, the configuration chosen is a simple rotor and stator system with a stationary and heated stator and a rotor. The aspect ratio is kept small (around 0.1). The flow and heat transfer characteristics are obtained for a rotational Reynolds number of around 106. The simulation is performed using the Reynolds Stress Model (RSM). The computational model is first validated against experimental data available in the literature. Studies have been carried out to calculate the disk temperatures using conventional non-conjugate and full conjugate approaches. It has been found that the difference between the disk temperatures for conjugate and non-conjugate computations is 5 K for the low temperature and 30 K for the high temperature boundary conditions. These represent differences of 1% and 2% from the respective stator surface temperatures. Even at low temperatures, the Nusselt numbers at the disk surface show a difference of 5% between the conjugate and non-conjugate computations, and far higher at higher temperatures.

Conjugate Heat Transfer in Air-to-Refrigerant Airfoil Heat Exchangers

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutaka Ito ◽  
Naoya Inokura ◽  
Takao Nagasaki
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Exchange System ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Heat Exchange System ◽  
Inverse Heat Transfer ◽  
Transfer Method

A light and compact heat exchange system was realized using two air-to-refrigerant airfoil heat exchangers and a recirculated heat transport refrigerant. Its heat transfer performance was experimentally investigated. Carbon dioxide or water was used as a refrigerant up to a pressure of 30 MPa. Heat transfer coefficients on the outer air-contact and inner refrigerant-contact surfaces were calculated using an inverse heat transfer method. Correlations were developed for the Nusselt numbers of carbon dioxide and water on the inner refrigerant-contact surface. Furthermore, we proposed a method to evaluate a correction factor corresponding to the thermal resistance of the airfoil heat exchanger.

Unsteady Wake Over a Linear Turbine Blade Cascade With Air and CO2 Film Injection: Part I—Effect on Heat Transfer Coefficients

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ou ◽  
J.-C. Han ◽  
A. B. Mehendale ◽  
C. P. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Transition Region ◽  
Density Ratio ◽  
Wake Flow ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Surface ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Unsteady Wake

The effect of unsteady wake flow and air (D.R. = 1.0) or CO2 (D.R. = 1.52) film injection on blade heat transfer coefficients was experimentally determined. A spoked wheel-type wake generator produced the unsteady wake. Experiments were performed on a five-airfoil linear cascade in a low-speed wind tunnel at the chord Reynolds number of 3 × 105 for the no-wake case and at the wake Strouhal numbers of 0.1 and 0.3. Results from a blade with three rows of film holes in the leading edge region and two rows each on the pressure and suction surfaces show that the Nusselt numbers are much higher than those for the blade without film holes. On a large portion of the blade, the Nusselt numbers “without wake but with film injection” are much higher than for “with wake but no film holes.” An increase in wake Strouhal number causes an increase in pressure surface Nusselt numbers; but the increases are reduced at higher blowing ratios. As blowing ratio increases, the Nusselt numbers for both density ratio injectants (air and CO2) increase over the entire blade except for the transition region where the effect is reversed. Higher density injectant (CO2) produces lower Nusselt numbers on the pressure surface, but the numbers for air and CO2 injections are very close on the suction surface except for the transition region where the numbers for CO2 injection are higher. From this study, one may conclude that the additional increases in Nusselt numbers due to unsteady wake, blowing ratio, and density ratio are only secondary when compared to the dramatic increases in Nusselt numbers only due to film injection over the no film holes case.

Single-Phase Heat Transfer in Mems-Based Pin Fin Heat Sink

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Kosar ◽  
Yoav Peles
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pin Fin ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Pin Fins ◽  
Micro Pin Fins

An experimental study has been performed on single-phase heat transfer of de-ionized water over a bank of shrouded micro pin fins 243-μm long with hydraulic diameter of 99.5-μm. Heat transfer coefficients and Nusselt numbers have been obtained over effective heat fluxes ranging from 3.8 to 167 W/cm2 and Reynolds numbers from 14 to 112. The results were used to derive the Nusselt numbers and total thermal resistances. It has been found that endwalls effects are significant at low Reynolds numbers and diminish at higher Reynolds numbers.

Measurement and Analysis of Laminar Heat Transfer Coefficients in Micro and Mini-Scale Ducts and Channels

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. S. Muzychka ◽  
M. Ghobadi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Fully Developed Flow ◽  
Transfer Rates ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Nusselt Numbers

Heat transfer in micro and mini-scale ducts and channels is considered. In particular, issues of thermal performance are considered in systems with constant wall temperature at low to moderate Reynolds numbers or small dimensional scales which lead to conditions characteristic of thermally fully developed flows or within the transition region leading to thermally fully developed flows. An analysis of two approaches to representing experimental data is given. One using the traditional Nusselt number and another using the dimensionless mean wall flux. Both approaches offer a number of advantages and disadvantages. In particular, it is shown that while good data can be obtained which agree with predicted heat transfer rates, the same data can be problematic if one desires a Nusselt number. Other issues such as boundary conditions pertaining to measuring thermally developing and fully developed flow Nusselt numbers are also discussed in detail.

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.

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