Paper 6: Natural Convection Effect on Heat Transfer to a Turbulent Water Flow in Intensively Heated Tubes at Supercritical Pressures

Author(s):  
M. E. Shitsman

Experimental data are presented from studies of turbulent heat transfer at high fluxes to water flowing in vertical tubes at supercritical pressures. A comparison of data for upward and downward flows indicates an effect of natural convection.

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 3259-3266 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.I. Lee ◽  
P. Hejzlar ◽  
P. Saha ◽  
P. Stahle ◽  
M.S. Kazimi ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bousbai ◽  
M. Ould-Rouiss ◽  
A. Mazouz ◽  
A. Mataoui

Author(s):  
V.V. Gorskiy ◽  
A.G. Loktionova

In order to compute the intensity of laminar-turbulent heat transfer, algebraic or differential models are commonly used, which are designed to compute the contribution of turbulent pulsations to the transfer properties of the gas. This, in turn, dictates the necessity of validating these semi-empirical models against experimental data obtained under conditions simulating the gas dynamics inherent to the phenomenon as observed in practice. The gas dynamic patterns observed during gradient flow around fragments of aircraft structure (such as a sphere or a cylinder) differs qualitatively from the patterns revealed by the flow around the lateral surfaces of these fragments, which necessitates using various semi-empirical approaches in this case, followed by mandatory validation against the results of respective experimental studies. In recent years, there appeared scientific publications dealing with modifying one of the algebraic models designed to compute the contribution of turbulent pulsations in the boundary layer to the transfer properties of the gas; this was accomplished by making use of experimental data obtained for a hemisphere at extremely high Reynolds numbers. The paper proposes a similar modification of the same turbulence model, based on fitting a wide range of experimental data obtained for lateral surfaces of spherically blunted cones. As a result of the investigations conducted, we stated a method for computing laminar-to-turbulent heat transfer over the entire surface of a blunted cone; the accuracy of the method is acceptable in terms of most practical applications. We show that the computational method presented is characterised by minimum error as compared to the most widely spread methods for solving this problem


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