HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS OF A GAS FLOW IN UNI-DIRECTIONAL POROUS COPPER PIPES

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Sato ◽  
K. Yuki ◽  
Y. Abe ◽  
Risako Kibushi ◽  
Noriyuki Unno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Porous Copper

Numerical Simulation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Turbulent Gas Flow in Micro-Tubes

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyohei Isobe ◽  
Chungpyo Hong ◽  
Yutaka Asako ◽  
Ichiro Ueno
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Tube Diameter ◽  
Turbulence Energy ◽  
Stagnation Temperature ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Turbulent Gas Flow

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.

B211 Heat transfer characteristics of turbulent gas flow in micro-tubes

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (0) ◽  
pp. 253-254
Author(s):  
Kyohei ISOBE ◽  
Chungpyo HONG ◽  
Ichiro UENO ◽  
Yutaka ASAKO ◽  
Koichi SUZUKI
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Turbulent Gas Flow

Convective Heat Transfer of Turbulent Gas Flow in Micro-Tubes With Constant Wall Temperature (Cooled Case)

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyohei Isobe ◽  
Chungpyo Hong ◽  
Yutaka Asako ◽  
Ichiro Ueno
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Tube Diameter ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Turbulent Gas Flow ◽  
Heated Case

Numerical computations were performed to obtain for heat transfer characteristics of turbulent gas flow in micro-tubes with constant wall temperature whose temperature is lower than the inlet temperature (cooled case). 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 was fixed at 300 K and the computations were done for wall temperature, which ranged from 250 K to 295 K. The stagnation pressure was chosen in such a way that the flow is in turbulent flow regime. The results in wide range of Reynolds number and Mach number were obtained. The bulk temperature based on the static temperature and the total temperature of the cooled case are compared with those of heated case and also with temperatures of the incompressible flow. The result shows that different heat transfer characteristics are obtained for each cooled and heated case. A correlation for the prediction of the heat transfer rate of the turbulent gas flow in a micro-tube is proposed.

The Effect of Channel Diameter on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Two-Phase Flow in Microchannels

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyosung Choo ◽  
Daniel Trainer ◽  
Sung Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Superficial Velocity ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Channel Diameter ◽  
Transfer Characteristics

The heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of non-boiling two-phase flow in microchannels were experimentally investigated. The effects of channel diameter (140, 222, 334, and 506 μm) on the Nusselt number were considered. Air and water were used as the working fluids. Results were presented for the Nusselt number over a wide range of gas superficial velocity (1.24–40.1 m/s), liquid superficial velocity (0.57–2.13 m/s), and wall heat flux (0.34–0.95 MW/m2). The results showed that the Nusselt number increased with increasing gas flow rate for the 506 μm and 334 μm channels, while the Nusselt number decreased with increasing gas flow for the 222 μm and 140 μm channels. Based on these experimental results, a transition channel diameter of about 235 μm to 260 μm, which distinguishes microchannels from minichannels, was suggested. By observing two-phase flow patterns within the microchannels, viscosity and surface tension were identified as the key factors that caused the heat transfer characteristics to change. In addition, new correlations for the forced convection Nusselt number were developed.

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