Three Dimensional Numerical Analysis of Laminar Slip-Flow Heat Transfer in Rectangular Microchannels

Author(s):  
H. D. Madhawa Hettiarachchi ◽  
Mihajlo Golubovic ◽  
William M. Worek

Slip-flow and heat transfer in rectangular microchannels are studied numerically for constant wall temperature (T) and constant wall heat flux (H2) boundary conditions under thermally developing flow. Navier-Stokes and energy equations with velocity slip and temperature jump at the boundary are solved using finite volume method in a three dimensional cartesian coordinate system. A modified convection-diffusion coefficient at the wall-fluid interface is defined to incorporate the temperature-jump boundary condition. Validity of the numerical simulation procedure is stabilized. The effect of rarefaction on heat transfer in the entrance region is analyzed in detail. The velocity slip has an increasing effect on the Nusselt (Nu) number whereas temperature jump has a decreasing effect, and the combined effect could result increase or decrease in the Nu number. For the range of parameters considered, there could be high as 15% increase or low as 50% decrease in fully developed Nu is plausible for T thermal boundary condition while it could be high as 20% or low as 35% for H2 thermal boundary condition.

2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Colin

Accurate modeling of gas microvection is crucial for a lot of MEMS applications (microheat exchangers, pressure gauges, fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, mass flow and temperature microsensors, micropumps, and microsystems for mixing or separation for local gas analysis, mass spectrometers, vacuum, and dosing valves…). Gas flows in microsystems are often in the slip flow regime, characterized by a moderate rarefaction with a Knudsen number of the order of 10−2–10−1. In this regime, velocity slip and temperature jump at the walls play a major role in heat transfer. This paper presents a state of the art review on convective heat transfer in microchannels, focusing on rarefaction effects in the slip flow regime. Analytical and numerical models are compared for various microchannel geometries and heat transfer conditions (constant heat flux or constant wall temperature). The validity of simplifying assumptions is detailed and the role played by the kind of velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions is shown. The influence of specific effects, such as viscous dissipation, axial conduction and variable fluid properties is also discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (08) ◽  
pp. 1350054 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALI AMIRI-JAGHARGH ◽  
HAMID NIAZMAND ◽  
METIN RENKSIZBULUT

The effects of thermal creep on the development of gaseous fluid flow and heat transfer in rectangular microchannels with constant wall temperature are investigated in the slip-flow regime. Thermal creep arises from tangential temperature gradients, which may be significant in the entrance region of channels, and affects the velocity and temperature fields particularly in low Reynolds number flows. In the present work, the Navier–Stokes and energy equations coupled with velocity-slip and temperature-jump conditions applied at the channel walls are solved numerically using a control-volume technique. Despite the constant wall temperature, tangential temperature gradients form in the gas layer adjacent to the wall due to the temperature-jump condition. The effects of slip/jump and thermal creep on the flow patterns and parameters are studied in detail for a wide range of channel aspect ratios and, Knudsen and Reynolds numbers. Furthermore, the effects of variable properties on velocity-slip and, friction and heat transfer coefficients are also examined.


Author(s):  
Ste´phane Colin

Accurate modeling of gas microvection is crucial for a lot of MEMS applications (micro-heat exchangers, pressure gauges, fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, mass flow and temperature micro-sensors, micropumps and microsystems for mixing or separation for local gas analysis, mass spectrometers, vacuum and dosing valves…). Gas flows in microsystems are often in the slip flow regime, characterized by a moderate rarefaction with a Knudsen number of the order of 10−2–10−1. In this regime, velocity slip and temperature jump at the walls play a major role in heat transfer. This paper presents a state of the art review on convective heat transfer in microchannels, focusing on rarefaction effects in the slip flow regime. Analytical and numerical models are compared for various microchannel geometries and heat transfer conditions (constant heat flux or constant wall temperature). The validity of simplifying assumptions is detailed and the role played by the kind of velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions is shown. The influence of specific effects, such as viscous dissipation, axial conduction and variable fluid properties is also discussed.


Author(s):  
H. D. Madhawa Hettiarachchi ◽  
Mihajlo Golubovic ◽  
William M. Worek ◽  
W. J. Minkowycz

Slip-flow and conjugate heat transfer in rectangular microchannels are studied numerically for thermally developing laminar flow subjected to constant wall temperature (T) and constant wall heat flux (H2) boundary conditions. A three-dimensional numerical code based on finite volume method is developed to solve the coupled energy equations in the wall and fluid regions together with temperature jump at the wall-fluid boundary. A modified convection-diffusion coefficient at the wall-fluid interface is defined to incorporate the temperature-jump boundary condition. The numerical code is validated by comparing the present results with the published data. The effect of rarefaction and wall conduction on the heat transfer in the entrance region is analyzed in detail. Results show that the wall conduction has a considerable influence on the developing Nusselt number along the channel for the H2 boundary condition, particularly at low Knudsen numbers. In the case of the T thermal boundary condition, negligible influence of wall conduction on the Nusselt number is observed for all Knudsen numbers considered.


2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yutaka Asako ◽  
Chungpyo Hong

The analytical solution in the fully developed region of a slip flow in a circular microtube with constant wall temperature is obtained to verify the conventional temperature jump boundary condition when both viscous dissipation (VD) and substantial derivative of pressure (SDP) terms are included in the energy equation. Although the shear work term is not included in the conventional temperature jump boundary condition explicitly, it is verified that the conventional temperature jump boundary condition is valid for a slip flow in a microchannel with constant wall temperature when both viscous dissipation and substantial derivative of pressure terms are included in the energy equation. Numerical results are also obtained for a slip flow in a developing region of a circular tube. The results showed that the maximum heat transfer rate decreases with increasing Mach number.


Author(s):  
Shengze Cai ◽  
Zhicheng Wang ◽  
Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis ◽  
George Em Karniadakis

Abstract Simulating convective heat transfer using traditional numerical methods requires explicit definition of thermal boundary conditions on all boundaries of the domain, which is almost impossible to fulfill in real applications. Here, we address this ill-posed problem using machine learning techniques by assuming that we have some extra measurements of the temperature at a few locations in the domain, not necessarily located on the boundaries with the unknown thermal boundary condition. In particular, we employ physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to represent the velocity and temperature fields while simultaneously enforce the Navier-Stokes and energy equations at random points in the domain. In PINNs, all differential operators are computed using automatic differentiation, hence avoiding discretization in either space or time. The loss function is composed of multiple terms, including the mismatch in the velocity and temperature data, the boundary and initial conditions, as well as the residuals of the Navier-Stokes and energy equations. Here, we develop a data-driven strategy based on PINNs to infer the temperature field in the prototypical problem of convective heat transfer in flow past a cylinder. We assume that we have just a couple of temperature measurements on the cylinder surface and a couple more temperature measurements in the wake region, but the thermal boundary condition on the cylinder surface is totally unknown. Upon training the PINN, we can discover the unknown boundary condition while simultaneously infer the temperature field everywhere in the domain with less than 5% error in the Nusselt number prediction. In order to assess the performance of PINN, we carried out a high fidelity simulation of the same heat transfer problem (with known thermal boundary conditions) by using the high-order spectral/hp-element method (SEM), and quantitatively evaluated the accuracy of PINN’s prediction with respect to SEM. We also propose a method to adaptively select the location of sensors in order to minimize the number of required temperature measurements while increasing the accuracy of the inference in heat transfer.


Author(s):  
C. B. Sobhan ◽  
Muhsin M. Ameen ◽  
Praveen P. Abraham

A numerical investigation of natural convection heat transfer from a rectangular fin array of microscale dimensions, where a “down and up” flow pattern occurs, is carried out. The stream function vorticity formulation is used in the analysis and the governing equations of the transient two dimensional field are solved using an explicit finite difference scheme. The dimensions of the domain are such that the problem falls under the slip flow regime. The non continuum effects are modeled through Maxwell’s velocity slip and Smoluchowski’s temperature jump boundary conditions. The steady state velocity and temperature distributions in the field are obtained by marching through the transient state. The average heat transfer coefficient and the Nusselt Number are calculated. The influence of the fin spacing, fin height and operating pressure on the performance of the fin array is studied through parametric studies and some conclusions are drawn regarding the significance of non continuum effects in the micro scale dimensions considered.


2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 440-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianfang Liu ◽  
Jing Zhu ◽  
Bandar Bin-Mohsin ◽  
Liancun Zheng

Nanofluid slip flow with distinct solid particles past a wedge with convective surface and high order slip is discussed in this paper. The wedge model is modified by considering the effects of Brownian motion and thermophphoresis together with the high order velocity slip and temperature jump. In this study, the governing fundamental equations are first transformed into third-order ordinary differential equations and solved by using the homotopy analysis method (HAM). Through error analysis and comparison with previous research, the effectiveness of HAM is ascertained, and the crucial influence of nanoparticles and high-order slip on the fluid skin-friction coefficient and heat transfer coefficient is analyed. Thermophphoresis parameter and suction/injection parameter are found to cause an increase in velocity and temperature. The rate of heat transfer in the Cu–water nanofluid is found to be higher than the others.


Author(s):  
Steffen Jebauer ◽  
Justyna Czerwinska

This paper presents various flow structures related to velocity slip and temperature jump in very low Reynolds number gas flow. The structures differ significantly from the ones observed in continuum regime for laminar flow, especially if the geometry has complex structure, which is very often the case in microfluidic devices. We are modelling the flow as a continuum Navier-Stokes gas flow with additional velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions for curved surfaces for slip flows with Knudsen numbers Kn < 0.1. For complex channel geometries with obstacles and curved walls vortex patterns are observed that are related to the thermal stress slip flow. This type of flow is induced only when non-uniform temperature distributions inside flow domains are present. The investigated geometries consist of one or more cylinder walls with diameters of up to a few 100 μm placed inside of confined microchannels, with all setups being two-dimensional. In gaseous microdevices the resulting complex flow patterns can be utilised to enhance mixing or heat transfer.


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