A method for thermal characteristics modelling of hob assembly on dry hobbing machine

Author(s):  
Zhitao Liu ◽  
Qian Tang ◽  
Xianguang Li ◽  
Zheng Zou ◽  
Yong Yang

Gear hobbing is the use of machinery to manufacture external gears. With the booming motor industry, there are more requirements for gear hobbing accuracy than ever before. Thermal error – as a major source of error in a dry hobbing machine – must be effectively compensated to achieve accuracy. Thus, studies on the thermal error of hob assembly are important both in theory and practice. This paper discusses the development of a valid numerical modelling method for the hob assembly of a dry hobbing machine. The equations used to determine the values of heat sources and heat transfer coefficients are given. The temperature field and thermal deformation of the hob assembly were obtained by thermal-structural coupling numerical simulations. Numerical results showed that the deformation can maximally reach to 94.5 µm, which is non-ignorable in the thermal deformation analysis of the whole dry gear hobbing machine. Subsequently, by comparing the simulation results and experimental data, the newly proposed method to determine the forced convection heat transfer coefficient proved more fitting for describing the airflow pattern inside the gear hobbing zone. The satisfactory agreement between simulation results and experimental data also suggests that the numerical analysis method proposed in this paper can provide an effective research tool to optimize the design of hob assembly. And the results obtained by the proposed method can be used for thermal error modelling in real error compensation.

Author(s):  
Andreas Jeromin ◽  
Christian Eichler ◽  
Berthold Noll ◽  
Manfred Aigner

Numerical predictions of conjugate heat transfer on an effusion cooled flat plate were performed and compared to detailed experimental data. The commercial package CFX® is used as flow solver. The effusion holes in the referenced experiment had an inclination angle of 17 degrees and were distributed in a staggered array of 7 rows. The geometry and boundary conditions in the experiments were derived from modern gas turbine combustors. The computational domain contains a plenum chamber for coolant supply, a solid wall and the main flow duct. Conjugate heat transfer conditions are applied in order to couple the heat fluxes between the fluid region and the solid wall. The fluid domain contains 2.4 million nodes, the solid domain 300,000 nodes. Turbulence modeling is provided by the SST turbulence model which allows the resolution of the laminar sublayer without wall functions. The numerical predictions of velocity and temperature distributions at certain locations show significant differences to the experimental data in velocity and temperature profiles. It is assumed that this behavior is due to inappropriate modeling of turbulence especially in the effusion hole. Nonetheless, the numerically predicted heat transfer coefficients are in good agreement with the experimental data at low blowing ratios.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhipeng Duan ◽  
Y. S. Muzychka

Impingement cooling of plate fin heat sinks is examined. Experimental measurements of thermal performance were performed with four heat sinks of various impingement inlet widths, fin spacings, fin heights, and airflow velocities. The percent uncertainty in the measured thermal resistance was a maximum of 2.6% in the validation tests. Using a simple thermal resistance model based on developing laminar flow in rectangular channels, the actual mean heat transfer coefficients are obtained in order to develop a simple heat transfer model for the impingement plate fin heat sink system. The experimental results are combined into a dimensionless correlation for channel average Nusselt number Nu∼f(L*,Pr). We use a dimensionless thermal developing flow length, L*=(L∕2)∕(DhRePr), as the independent parameter. Results show that Nu∼1∕L*, similar to developing flow in parallel channels. The heat transfer model covers the practical operating range of most heat sinks, 0.01<L*<0.18. The accuracy of the heat transfer model was found to be within 11% of the experimental data taken on four heat sinks and other experimental data from the published literature at channel Reynolds numbers less than 1200. The proposed heat transfer model may be used to predict the thermal performance of impingement air cooled plate fin heat sinks for design purposes.


2011 ◽  
Vol 58-60 ◽  
pp. 198-204
Author(s):  
Feng Shou Zhang ◽  
Don Gyan Wang ◽  
Jian Ting Liu ◽  
Feng Kui Cui

Friction between the guideway and the bench of large-type CNC lathe will cause thermal deformation of the guideway, which causes processing error of the lathe,thereby reduces machining precision of the workpiece. The authors establish the mathematical model of temperature field and thermal deformation of the guideway in the work process, numerically simulate the guideway thermal characteristics by ANSYS finite element analysis software, and obtain the distribution regularities of temperature field and thermal deformation and their major influencing factors, which provide a theoretical basis for optimizing design and thermal error compensation design of the lathe guideway.


Author(s):  
Yantao Li ◽  
Yulong Ji ◽  
Katsuya Fukuda ◽  
Qiusheng Liu

Abstract This paper presents an experimental investigation of the forced convective heat transfer of FC-72 in vertical tubes at various velocities, inlet temperatures, and tube sizes. Exponentially escalating heat inputs were supplied to the small tubes with inner diameters of 1, 1.8, and 2.8 mm and effective heated lengths between 30.1 and 50.2 mm. The exponential periods of heat input range from 6.4 to 15.5 s. The experimental data suggest that the convective heat transfer coefficients increase with an increase in flow velocity and µ/µw (refers to the viscosity evaluated at the bulk liquid temperature over the liquid viscosity estimated at the tube inner surface temperature). When tube diameter and the ratio of effective heated length to inner diameter decrease, the convective heat transfer coefficients increase as well. The experimental data were nondimensionalized to explore the effect of Reynolds number (Re) on forced convection heat transfer coefficient. It was found that the Nusselt numbers (Nu) are influenced by the Re for d = 2.8 mm in the same pattern as the conventional correlations. However, the dependences of Nu on Re for d = 1 and 1.8 mm show different trends. It means that the conventional heat transfer correlations are inadequate to predict the forced convective heat transfer in minichannels. The experimental data for tubes with diameters of 1, 1.8, and 2.8 mm were well correlated separately. And, the data agree with the proposed correlations within ±15%.


Author(s):  
Vishal Ramesh ◽  
Sandip Mazumder ◽  
Gurpreet Matharu ◽  
Dhaval Vaishnav ◽  
Syed Ali ◽  
...  

A combined Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and experimental approach is presented to determine (calibrate) the external convective heat transfer coefficients (h) around a partially-filled water tank cooled in a climactic chamber. A CFD analysis that includes natural convection in both phases (water and air) was performed using a 2D-axisymmetric tank model with three prescribed average heat transfer coefficients for the top, side and bottom walls of the tank. The commercial CFD code ANSYS-Fluent™, along with User-Defined Functions (UDFs), were utilized to compute and extract temperature vs. time curves at five different thermocouple locations within the tank. The prescribed h values were then altered to match experimentally obtained temperature-time data at the same locations. The calibration was deemed successful when results from the simulations exhibited match with experimental data within ±2°C for all thermocouples. The calibrated h values were finally used in full-scale 3D simulations and compared to the experimental data to test their accuracy. Predicted 3D results were found to agree with experimental results within the error of the calibration, thereby lending credibility to the overall approach.


Author(s):  
Jiang Lei ◽  
Shiou-Jiuan Li ◽  
Je-Chin Han ◽  
Luzeng Zhang ◽  
Hee-Koo Moon

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of a turning vane on hub region heat transfer in a multi-pass rectangular smooth channel at high rotation numbers. The experimental data were taken in the second and the third passages (Aspect Ratio = 2:1) connected by an 180° U-bend. The flow was radial inward in the second passage and was radial outward after the 180° U-bend in the third passage. The Reynolds number ranged 10,000 to 40,000 while the rotation number ranged 0 to 0.42. The density ratio was a constant of 0.12. Results showed that rotation increases heat transfer on leading surface but decreases it on the trailing surface in the second passage. In the third passage, the effect of rotation is reversed. Without a turning vane, rotation reduces heat transfer substantially on all surfaces in the hub 180° turn region. After adding a half-circle-shaped turning vane, heat transfer coefficients do not change in the second passage (before turn) while they are quite different in the turn region and the third passage (after turn). Regional heat transfer coefficients are correlated with rotation numbers for multi-pass rectangular smooth channel with and without a turning vane.


Author(s):  
H Hardisty ◽  
J Abboud ◽  
S Vertman

Because of the current trend in manufacturing to pack a greater number of electronic components into a given volume, the thermal failure of microelectronic systems is becoming an increasingly difficult design problem. This paper describes heat-transfer research into the important case of air cooling by forced convection of an array of electronic modules on a printed circuit board (PCB). Because of the interrupted nature of the airflow over the surface and the complex three-dimensional nature of the heat flow path, theoretical analysis is difficult and heat-transfer data for design are relatively scarce. A research rig was designed and constructed which provided control of module power dissipation and continuously monitored the temperature of individual packages. An automatic data-acquisition system was successfully developed to record the large amount of experimental data that was generated. Realistic finite element models of the electronic package, leads and substrate were developed and used to reveal the temperature distribution. These models were also used, in conjunction with the experimental data, to determine heat-transfer coefficients. Correlations were established that related the value of the heat-transfer coefficient to distance from the leading edge of the PCB. It is intended that these correlations, together with the thermal analysis contained in the paper, will provide useful data for designers.


1975 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Magrini ◽  
E. Nannei

An experimental investigation was conducted under conditions of saturated pool boiling of water at atmospheric pressure on thin, horizontal, cylindrical walls of different metals and thicknesses, electrically heated. The heating walls, ranging in thickness from 5 to 250 μm, were obtained by plating copper, silver, zinc, nickel, and tin on nonmetallic rods. Experiments showed that the heat transfer coefficient can be affected, in particular conditions, by the heating wall thickness. In particular, it resulted that the smaller the thermal conductivity of the metal layer, the higher the influence of the thickness. A semiempirical correlation of the form ΔT = (q/A)nf(κd, √κρc) suitable to correlate the experimental data within ±15 percent in the whole range of variables here investigated is proposed.


Author(s):  
Xiangfei Kong ◽  
Huixiong Li ◽  
Changjiang Liao ◽  
Xianliang Lei ◽  
Qian Zhang

Supercritical pressure water has been widely used in many industrial fields, such as fossil-fired power plants and nuclear reactors because mainly of its high thermal efficiencies. Although many empirical correlations for heat transfer coefficients of supercritical pressure water have been proposed by different authors based on different experimental data base, there exist remarkable discrepancies between the predicted heat transfer coefficients of different correlations under even the same condition. Heat transfer correlations with good prediction performance are of considerable significance for developing supercritical (ultra-supercritical) pressure boilers and SCWRs. In this paper, the experimental data (about 7389 experimental data points) and 30 existing empirical correlations for heat transfer of supercritical pressure water (SCW) flowing in vertical upward tubes are collected from the open literatures. Evaluations of the prediction performance of the existing correlations are conducted based on the collected experimental data, and a detailed multi-collinearity analysis has been made on different correction factors involved in the existing correlations, and then based on the collected experimental data, a new heat transfer correlation is developed for the supercritical pressure water flowing in vertical upward tubes under normal and enhanced heat transfer mode. Compared with the existing correlations, the new correlation exhibits good prediction accuracy, with a mean absolute deviation (MAD) of 9.63%.


Author(s):  
Hakim Maloufi ◽  
Hanqing Xie ◽  
Andrew Zopf ◽  
William Anderson ◽  
Christian Langevin ◽  
...  

Currently, there is a number of Generation-IV SuperCritical Water-cooled nuclear-Reactor (SCWR) concepts under development worldwide. These high temperature and pressure reactors will have significantly higher operating parameters compared to those of current water-cooled nuclear-power reactors (i.e., “steam” pressures of about 25 MPa and “steam” outlet temperatures up to 625 °C). Additionally, SCWRs will have a simplified flow circuit in which steam generators, steam dryers, steam separators, etc. will be eliminated, as the steam will be flowing directly to a steam turbine. In support of developing SCWRs studies are being conducted on heat transfer at SuperCritical Pressures (SCPs). Currently, there are very few experimental datasets for heat transfer at SCPs in power-reactor fuel bundles to a coolant (water) available in open literature. Therefore, for preliminary calculations, heat-transfer correlations developed with bare-tube data can be used as a conservative approach. Selected empirical heat-transfer correlations, based on experimentally obtained datasets, have been put forward to calculate Heat Transfer Coefficients (HTCs) in forced convective in various fluids, including water at SCPs. The Mokry et al. correlation (2011) has shown a good fit for experimental data at supercritical conditions within a wide range of operating conditions in Normal and Improved Heat-Transfer (NHT and IHT) regimes. However, it is known that a Deteriorated Heat-Transfer (DHT) regime appears in bare tubes earlier than that in bundle flow geometries. Therefore, it is important to know if bare-tube heat-transfer correlations for SCW can predict HTCs at heat fluxes beyond those defined as starting of DHT regime in bare tubes. The Mokry et al. (2011) correlation fits the best SCW experimental data for HTCs and inner wall temperature for bare tubes at SCPs within the NHT and IHT regimes. However, this correlation might have problems with convergence of iterations at heat fluxes above 1000 kW/m2.


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