Analog networks for high heat-transfer-rate measurements

AIAA Journal ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 786-787
Author(s):  
Z. A. WALENTA
2014 ◽  
Vol 984-985 ◽  
pp. 1163-1173
Author(s):  
M. Ezhilan ◽  
P. Seeni Kannan

Micro channel heat exchangers (MCHX) can be broadly classified as fluidic devices that employ channels of hydraulic diameter smaller than 1 mm. The present study focused on validate the better configuration parameters of louver fin used in MCHX for apply in residential air-conditioner condenser. The study has considered for three different louver angle case, two different louver lengths for better louver angle case and finally two different louver pitches for better louver angle and louver length case. The study indicates that the pressure drop will depends upon the louver angle and pitch. The louver angle i.e. 25deg provides reasonable pressure drop and high heat transfer rate. Thus by changing the length of louver can increase the pressure drop in MCHX. The case ie., 1.2mm louver length have more heat transfer rate. But when comparing to 1mm louver length case Net Heat Transfer rate is high. So the study further continued by having the louver length 1mm and changing the louver pitch. The louver pitch 0.8 and 1.2 has only considered for the study. The length of louver can decrease the pressure drop in MCHX. The variation of net heat transfer rate to changing the louver pitch indicating the importance of number of louver present in the MCHX. Thus the present study indicates the importance of configuration parameters for MCHX. The study also indicates that the increasing the louver length and angle will increase the net heat transfer rate. While increasing the louver pitch is inversely proportional to the net heat transfer rate of MCHX.


1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao Peng

Pin fin or full cross pin cooling configurations have long been of interest to the turbine cooling designer because of their potentially high heat transfer characteristics and high surface area density, as well as their structural and castability advantages. The pin fin cooling configurations consist of flow channels with circular pins extending from the walls into the channel flow. The pin fins function as turbulators to produce high heat transfer rate; however, their geometric arrangement must be optimized to avoid high friction loss. Experimental tests have been conducted to investigate the effects of pin heights, spacings, and channel height to length ratios to the heat transfer and friction loss characteristics of the pin fin cooling configurations. The test results indicate that the pin fin configuration provides a means to reduce the flow friction loss and yet to maintain a reasonably high heat transfer rate as compared to the cross pin configuration. The pin spacing in the test range shows less effects on the pin fin performance than the pin height.


Author(s):  
N. Jeffers ◽  
J. Punch ◽  
E. Walsh

Contemporary electronic systems currently generate high heat fluxes at component level. Impingement cooling is an effective way to generate high heat transfer coefficients in order to meet thermal constraints. This paper investigates the heat transfer and hydrodynamic characteristics of a confined impinging liquid jet with a nozzle-to-plate spacing (H/D) ratio of 0.5. A custom measurement facility was created to infer local heat transfer rates from infra-red images of a jet impinging on a 12.5μm thick stainless steel foil configured to generate uniform heat flux. Particle-Image Velocimetry (PIV) was performed in order to obtain quantitative velocity data within the jet. A series of experiments were run for Reynolds numbers (Re) in the range of 1,000–24,000 for a jet of 8 mm diameter (D). For Re > 4,000, the local heat transfer rate — in terms of Nusselt number (Nu) as a function of dimensionless radius (r/D) — had a plateau section between 0 < r/D < 0.6 followed by a peak at r/D ∼ 1.35. For higher Re the Nu peak exceeds that of the plateau section. For Re < 4,000, a plateau section exists between 0 < r/D < 0.4 followed by a shoulder located between 1 < r/D < 1.4. The PIV data for Re > 4,000 showed a strong vortex in the area of the secondary peak in Nu which was not present in the lower Re range. This phenomenon — the local peaks of heat transfer rate — has been previously reported in the literature with a degree of uncertainty as to the related fluid mechanics. This paper contributes to an understanding of the fluidic phenomenon responsible for the distribution of heat transfer rate in confined jets.


Author(s):  
Genki Takeuchi ◽  
Akiko Fujiwara ◽  
Yutaka Abe ◽  
Yutaka Suzuki

It is requested to develop a small and high performance heat exchanger for small size energy equipments such as fuel cells and CO2 heat pumps, et.al... In author’s previous studies, a high pressure resistant microchannel layers stacked heat exchanger has been developed. The heat exchanger is manufactured by diffusion bond technique. It can be used under high pressure condition larger than 15 MPa. Due to the high pressure resistance, the device can be applied for high flow rate condition with boiling and condensation. The objectives of the present study are to estimate the heat transfer performance of the heat exchanger and to investigate the thermal hydraulic behavior in the microchannel. The flow pattern in a glass capillary tube is observed by fabricating visualization system. As the results, it is measured that the present device attained high heat transfer quantity of approximately 7000 W on steam condensation despite the weight is only 230 g. The measurement results clarified that the device achieves very high heat transfer rate of hundreds times larger than that of the existing heat exchanger. Furthermore, visualization experiment with single glass pipe is conducted to clarify the flow condensation behavior in the microchannel. In the experiment, the microchannel of Pyrex glass is surrounded by the subcooling water. The flow patterns can visualized from the side of the microchannel. Flow patterns observations are conducted for various inlet pressure and temperatures of the subcooling water. It is observed that the continuous flow transition from annular and injection flow to slug-bubble flow in the microchannel. The reason of large heat transfer rate per unit volume is discussed as relating to narrow interval of each microchannels and small thermal resistance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Muthtamilselvan ◽  
S. Sureshkumar

Abstract The present study is proposed to investigate the effects of various lengths and different locations of the heater on the left sidewall in a square lid-driven porous cavity filled with nanofluid. A higher temperature is maintained on the left wall where three different lengths and three different locations of the heat source are considered for the analysis. The right wall is kept at a lower temperature while the top and bottom walls, and the remaining portions of the heated wall are adiabatic. The governing equations are solved by finite volume method. The results show that among the different lengths of the heat source, an enhancement in the heat transfer rate is observed only for the length LH = 1/3 of the heat source. In the case of location of the heat source, the overall heat transfer rate is increased when the heat source is located at the top of the hot wall. For Ri = 1 and 0.01, a better heat transfer rate is obtained when the heat source is placed at the top of the hot wall whereas for Ri = 100, it occurs when the heating portion is at the middle of the hot wall. As the solid volume fraction increases, the viscosity of the fluid is increased, which causes a reduction in the flow intensity. An addition of nanoparticles in the base fluid enhances the overall heat transfer rate significantly for all Da considered. The permeability of the porous medium plays a major role in convection of nanofluid than porosity. A high heat transfer rate (57.26%) is attained for Da = 10−1 and χ = 0.06.


Author(s):  
Shafquat Hussain

In this work, a triple concentric-tube heat exchanger (TCTH) with or without the application of longitudinal fins is numerically studied concerning its thermohydraulic performance. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program, Ansys FLUENT was used to perform the simulations to study the heat transfer enhancement using three different types of hot fluids, i.e. Crude oil, engine oil, and light diesel oil. The validated numerical model was first employed to investigate the heat transfer performance of unfinned TCTHE. Then, longitudinal fins were modeled and investigated for comparative analyses of the thermohydraulic performances of both constructions. To predict the heat exchanger performance, key parameters such as heat flux and temperature field distribution were evaluated. Results revealed that modifying the heat exchanger with longitudinal fins on the tube surface dramatically improves its heat transfer rate. Therefore, this research is designed to keep in view further exploring the potential of longitudinal fins in obtaining an improved performance from these types of heat exchanger devices. The results showed that the crude oil fluid has high heat transfer rate than the other two fluids light diesel oil and engine oil. With the application of fins on the tubes’ surfaces, a significant heat transfer exchange among the fluids streams is observed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 535 ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Hui Yong Chen ◽  
Shuai Guo

In this paper, numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the flow and heat transfer characteristics of dimple channels. To contrast with the channel with dimples, a numerical study on a smooth plate channel was also made. The results show that in dimple channel, flow separation occurred near dimple windward edge, low heat transfer rate was observed in these regions and dimple wake region owned high heat transfer rate. The calculation results show that the mean Nusselt numbers of dimple channel were 27.58 and the amplification is 15.2%. The friction factor of dimple channel is 0.018 and decrease by 5.26%, the thermal performance parameter TP is 1.18. It can be seen that the heat transfer in the channel is enhanced markedly with the staggered dimples.


2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mohammadpour-Ghadikolaie ◽  
M. Saffar-Avval ◽  
Z. Mansoori ◽  
N. Alvandifar ◽  
N. Rahmati

Laminar forced convection heat transfer from a constant temperature tube wrapped fully or partially by a metal porous layer and subjected to a uniform air cross-flow is studied numerically. The main aim of this study is to consider the thermal performance of some innovative arrangements in which only certain parts of the tube are covered by metal foam. The combination of Navier–Stokes and Darcy–Brinkman–Forchheimer equations is applied to evaluate the flow field. Governing equations are solved using the finite volume SIMPLEC algorithm and the effects of key parameters such as Reynolds number, metal foam thermophysical properties, and porous layer thickness on the Nusselt number are investigated. The results show that using a tube which is fully wrapped by an external porous layer with high thermal conductivity, high Darcy number, and low drag coefficient, can provide a high heat transfer rate in the high Reynolds number laminar flow, increasing the Nusselt number almost as high as 16 times compared to a bare tube. The most important result of thisstudy is that by using some novel arrangements in which the tube is partially covered by the foam layer, the heat transfer rate can be increased at least 20% in comparison to the fully wrapped tube, while the weight and material usage can be considerably reduced.


Author(s):  
Chyouhwu B. Huang ◽  
Hung-Shyong Chen ◽  
Szu-Ming Wu

Heat dissipation is a very important subject when dealing with industrial application especially in modern semiconductor related applications. Several techniques have been developed to solve the heat generated problem, such as heat dissipation device in IC packaging, high heat conductivity materials, heat tube, force convection, etc. Porous material is used in this study. Porous material is known to have large interior surface, therefore, with proper force convection; it can easily carry heat away. Micro porous ceramic (porous size: 490 μm) is attached to uninterruptible power supply (UPS) power chips. The increase of the heat dissipation rate improves UPS performance. Heat transfer properties comparisons for power chip with and without micro porous materials attached are studies. Also, heat transfer rate under different fan speeds (force convection) is studied. The results show that, heat transfer increases with the use of micro porous materials, the effectiveness ranges between 2–22%. Also, the heat transfer rate varies with air flow rate, the increase of heat transfer is about 4–6%. The dust effect was also performed; experimental results show that heat transfer rate will not be affected by the accumulated dust if a micro porous material is applied.


Author(s):  
Suabsakul Gururatana ◽  
Xianchang Li

Extended surfaces (fins) have been used to enhance heat transfer in many applications. In electronics cooling, fin-based heat sinks are commonly designed so that coolants (gas or liquid) are forced to pass through the narrow straight channel. To improve the overall heat sink performance, this study investigated numerically the details of heat sinks with interrupted and staggered fins cooled by forced convection. Long and narrow flow passages or channels are widely seen in heat sinks. Based on the fundamental theory of heat transfer, however, a new boundary layer can be created periodically with interrupted fins, and the entrance region can produce a very high heat transfer coefficient. The staggered fins can take advantage of the lower temperature flow from the upstream. The tradeoff is the higher pressure loss. A major challenge for heat sink design is to reduce the pressure loss while keeping the heat transfer rate high. The effect of fin shapes on the heat sink performance was also examined. Two different shapes under study are rectangular and elliptic with various gaps between the interrupted fins in the flow direction. In addition, studies were also conducted on the parametric effects of Reynolds number and gap length. It is observed that heat transfer increases with the Reynolds number due to the feature of developing boundary layer. If the same pressure drop is considered, the heat transfer rate of elliptic fins is higher than that of rectangular fins.


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