Experimental and theoretical study on free and force convection heat transfer

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1143-1152
Author(s):  
Guillermo Valencia Ochoa ◽  
Wilmer Escobar Sanchez ◽  
Sergio De La Hoz Truyoll
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Qianqian Jia ◽  
Haijun Jia

Because annulus channel can be used to develop high efficiency compact heat exchangers, the heat transfer in annulus channel has become great interest to researchers in recent years. Most of the studies focus on the vertical concentric and horizontal eccentric annulus. The investigations about single phase force convection heat transfer inside a vertical eccentric annulus are not enough. In this work, force convection heat transfer is numerically studied to determine the eccentricity effect inside a vertical annulus. For this purpose, full Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations along with energy equations are solved in a 3-D grid. The discrete method of the equations is based on finite-volume method and the turbulence model is RNG k-ε model. The radius ratio of the annulus is 0.8 in this work. Heat flux of one wall is constant while the other is insulated. Firstly, the feasibility and exactness of the numerical method is proved by comparing the Nusselt number with experiment in concentric annulus. Then the effect of eccentricity is studied in detail.


2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 256-258
Author(s):  
Pankaj Sonkusare ◽  
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S. K. Dhakad S. K. Dhakad ◽  
Pravin Kumar Pravin Kumar ◽  
Sanjay Katarey ◽  
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AIChE Journal ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R. Purves ◽  
Robert S. Brodkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-179
Author(s):  
Abeer Aamer ◽  
Suhad Abd-hameed

An experimental and theoretical study of air forced convection heat transfer at Reynoldsnumber (1091.5 to 1560) around a circular cylinder placed in an iron test section (0.2x0.2x0.4m3) filled with saturated porous material glass balls of 5mm in diameter. A copper circularcylinder heater of diameter 0.015m and length 0.2m is heated electrically; it is located indifferent positions in X and Y direction within the test section. The forced convection heattransfer is simulated using the ANSYS program (Fluent). The results showed that the surfacetemperature distribution of the cylinder has the same trends for the different locations withinthe test section. The average Nusselt number increases with Reynolds number and heat flux.Also, the results show that the use of porous material improves heat transfer by 67.4%. Themaximum percentage deviation between the experimental and theoretical results is 1.622%.Moreover, experimental correlations were introduced and comparison was performedbetween the present results with the previous studies and it gives a good agreement.


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