scholarly journals Combined Effects of Temperature and Reynolds Number on Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Cationic Surfactant Solution

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 879615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Ma ◽  
Jianfeng Wang ◽  
Jinjia Wei
Author(s):  
Kyohei Isobe ◽  
Chungpyo Hong ◽  
Yutaka Asako ◽  
Ichiro Ueno

Numerical simulations were performed to obtain for heat transfer characteristics of turbulent gas flow in micro-tubes with constant wall temperature. The numerical methodology was based on Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerinan (ALE) method to solve compressible momentum and energy equations. The Lam-Bremhorst Low-Reynolds number turbulence model was employed to evaluate eddy viscosity coefficient and turbulence energy. The tube diameter ranges from 100 μm to 400 μm and the aspect ratio of the tube diameter and the length is fixed at 200. The stagnation temperature is fixed at 300 K and the computations were done for wall temperature, which ranges from 305 K to 350 K. The stagnation pressure was chosen in such a way that the flow is in turbulent flow regime. The obtained Reynolds number ranges widely up to 10081 and the Mach number at the outlet ranges from 0.1 to 0.9. The heat transfer rates obtained by the present study are higher than those of the incompressible flow. This is due to the additional heat transfer near the micro-tube outlet caused by the energy conversion into kinetic energy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Nili-Ahmadabadi ◽  
H. Karrabi

This paper will present the results of the experimental investigation of heat transfer in a non-annular channel between rotor and stator similar to a real generator. Numerous experiments and numerical studies have examined flow and heat transfer characteristics of a fluid in an annulus with a rotating inner cylinder. In the current study, turbulent flow region and heat transfer characteristics have been studied in the air gap between the rotor and stator of a generator. The test rig has been built in a way which shows a very good agreement with the geometry of a real generator. The boundary condition supplies a non-homogenous heat flux through the passing air channel. The experimental devices and data acquisition method are carefully described in the paper. Surface-mounted thermocouples are located on the both stator and rotor surfaces and one slip ring transfers the collected temperature from rotor to the instrument display. The rotational speed of rotor is fixed at three under: 300rpm, 900 rpm and 1500 rpm. Based on these speeds and hydraulic diameter of the air gap, the Reynolds number has been considered in the range: 4000<Rez<30000. Heat transfer and pressure drop coefficients are deduced from the obtained data based on a theoretical investigation and are expressed as a formula containing effective Reynolds number. To confirm the results, a comparison is presented with Gazley?s (1985) data report. The presented method and established correlations can be applied to other electric machines having similar heat flow characteristics.


2014 ◽  
Vol 591 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
M. Raja ◽  
R. Vijayan ◽  
R. Vivekananthan ◽  
M.A. Vadivelu

In the present work, the effect of nanofluid in a shell and tube heat exchanger was studied numerically. The effects of Reynolds number, volume concentration of suspended nanoparticles on the heat transfer characteristics were investigated using CFD software. Finally, the effect of the nanofluid on Shell and tube heat exchanger performance was studied and compared to that of a conventional fluid (i.e., water).


2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Tao ◽  
Zhibing Zhu ◽  
Haiwang Li

This paper attempts to experimentally investigate the influence of channel length on the flow behavior and heat transfer characteristics in circular microchannels. The diameters of the channels were 0.4 mm and the length of them were 5 mm, 10 mm, 15 mm, and 20 mm, respectively. All experiments were performed with air and completed with Reynolds number in the range of 300–2700. Results of the experiments show that the length of microchannels has remarkable effects on the performance of flow behavior and heat transfer characteristics. Both the friction factor and Poiseuille number drop with the increase of channel length, and the experimental values are higher than the theoretical ones. Moreover, the channel length does not influence the value of critical Reynolds number. Nusselt number decrease as the increase of channel length. Larger Nusselt numbers are obtained in shorter channels. The results also indicate that in all cases, the friction factor decreases and the Poiseuille number increases with the increase of the Reynolds number. It is also observed that the value of critical Reynolds number is between 1500 and 1700 in this paper, which is lower than the value of theoretical critical Reynolds number of 2300.


2011 ◽  
Vol 148-149 ◽  
pp. 680-683
Author(s):  
Run Peng Sun ◽  
Wei Bing Zhu ◽  
Hong Chen ◽  
Chang Jiang Chen

Three-dimensional numerical study is conducted to investigate the heat transfer characteristics for the flow impingement cooling in the narrow passage based on cooling technology of turbine blade.The effects of the jet Reynolds number, impingement distance and initial cross-flow on heat transfer characteristic are investigated.Results show that when other parameters remain unchanged local heat transfer coefficient increases with increase of jet Reynolds number;overall heat transfer effect is reduced by initial cross-flow;there is an optimal distance to the best effect of heat transfer.


Author(s):  
Julian P. Gutierrez ◽  
Alfonso Ortega ◽  
Amador M. Guzman

The flow and heat transfer characteristics of an impinging jet on a perpendicular flat surface are obtained by two dimensional numerical simulations of laminar and transitional flow regimes for the Reynolds number of Re = 300, 350, and 400 for a Prandtl number of Pr = 0.7. A fixed jet to plate spacing of H/W = 5 and a given heat flux on the plate surface are considered. Temporal evolution of velocity and temperature fields, Fourier spectra of the velocity temporal evolution and time average local and global Nusselt numbers are obtained for increasing Reynolds numbers for determining the time depending behavior and its effect on the heat transfer characteristics. Numerical simulation results demonstrate that self-sustained transitional periodic flow regimes arise from a laminar regime, when the Reynolds number is further increased to Re = 400 and that these regimes spread out to the whole domain with similar time dependent characteristics due to the flow incompressibility. Evaluations of time average local and global Nusselt numbers demonstrate the asymmetric Gaussian-type spatial distribution and the increase of both parameters when the flow evolves through the transitional periodic regime, with reasonable increases on the pumping power requirements.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
X. L. Wang ◽  
H. B. Yan ◽  
T. J. Lu ◽  
S. J. Song ◽  
T. Kim

This study reports on heat transfer characteristics on a curved surface subject to an inclined circular impinging jet whose impinging angle varies from a normal position θ = 0 deg to θ = 45 deg at a fixed jet Reynolds number of Rej = 20,000. Three curved surfaces having a diameter ratio (D/Dj) of 5.0, 10.0, and infinity (i.e., a flat plate) were selected, each positioned systematically inside and outside the potential core of jet flow where Dj is the circular jet diameter. Present results clarify similar and dissimilar local heat transfer characteristics on a target surface due to the convexity. The role of the potential core is identified to cause the transitional response of the stagnation heat transfer to the inclination of the circular jet. The inclination and convexity are demonstrated to thicken the boundary layer, reducing the local heat transfer (second peaks) as opposed to the enhanced local heat transfer on a flat plate resulting from the increased local Reynolds number.


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