scholarly journals Numerical Investigation of Gravity-Driven Granular Flow around the Vertical Plate: Effect of Pin-Fin and Oscillation on the Heat Transfer

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2187
Author(s):  
Xing Tian ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Zhigang Guo ◽  
Qiuwang Wang

In this paper, the heat transfer of pin-fin plate unit (PFPU) under static and oscillating conditions are numerically studied using the discrete element method (DEM). The flow and heat transfer characteristics of the PFPU with sinusoidal oscillation are investigated under the conditions of oscillating frequency of 0–10 Hz, amplitude of 0–5 mm and oscillating direction of Y and Z. The contact number, contact time, porosity and heat transfer coefficient under the above conditions are analyzed and compared with the smooth plate. The results show that the particle far away from the plate can transfer heat with the pin-fin of PFPU, and the oscillating PFPU can significantly increase the contact number and enhance the temperature diffusion and heat transfer. The heat transfer coefficient of PFPU increases with the increase of oscillating frequency and amplitude. When the PFPU oscillates along the Y direction with the amplitude of 1 mm and the frequency of 10 Hz, the heat transfer coefficient of PFPU is increased by 28% compared with that of the smooth plate. Compared with the oscillation along the Z direction, the oscillation along the Y direction has a significant enhancement on the heat transfer of PFPU.

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. David ◽  
D. Mendler ◽  
A. Mosyak ◽  
A. Bar-Cohen ◽  
G. Hetsroni

The thermal characteristics of a laboratory pin-fin microchannel heat sink were empirically obtained for heat flux, q″, in the range of 30–170 W/cm2, mass flux, m, in the range of 230–380 kg/m2 s, and an exit vapor quality, xout, from 0.2 to 0.75. Refrigerant R 134a (HFC-134a) was chosen as the working fluid. The heat sink was a pin-fin microchannel module installed in open flow loop. Deviation from the measured average temperatures was 1.5 °C at q = 30 W/cm2, and 2.0 °C at q = 170 W/cm2. These results indicate that use of pin-fin microchannel heat sink enables keeping an electronic device near uniform temperature under steady state and transient conditions. The heat transfer coefficient varied significantly with refrigerant quality and showed a peak at an exit vapor quality of 0.55 in all the experiments. At relatively low heat fluxes and vapor qualities, the heat transfer coefficient increased with vapor quality. At high heat fluxes and vapor qualities, the heat transfer coefficient decreased with vapor quality. A noteworthy feature of the present data is the larger magnitude of the transient heat transfer coefficients compared to values obtained under steady state conditions. The results of transient boiling were compared with those for steady state conditions. In contrast to the more common techniques, the low cost technique, based on open flow loop was developed to promote cooling using micropin fin sinks. Results of this experimental study may be used for designing the cooling high power laser and rocket-born electronic devices.


Author(s):  
Jin-Cherng Shyu ◽  
Shu-Kai Jheng

A 120 mm × 53 mm × 19 mm horizontally-oriented pico projector in which both a pin-fin array and a piezoelectric fan were installed was tested to measure the thermal resistance at various heating powers. The operating frequency of the 40 mm × 10 mm aluminum piezoelectric fan ranged from 242 Hz to 257 Hz. The heat transfer coefficient of the pin-fin array was also estimated based on a thermal resistance network of the pico projector. The results showed that the thermal resistance of the pico projector which had a piezoelectric fan vibrating at a specific frequency would not monotonically reduce as the heating power increased. The heat transfer coefficient of the 1.5-mm-wide pin-fin array was higher than that of the 2.0-mm-wide pin-fin array at a given fan tip velocity ranging from 0.26 m/s to 0.76 m/s. The highest heat transfer coefficient of the 1.5-mm-wide pin-fin array reached approximately 21 W/m2K, while the highest heat transfer coefficient of the 2.0-mm-wide pin-fin array was approximately 16 W/m2K. A correlation between Nusselt number of the pin-fin array and Reynolds number was also developed in this study in a form of Nu = 0.3526Re0.1774.


Author(s):  
M Yaghoubi ◽  
E Velayati

Numerical studies of fluid flow and heat transfer are made in the separated, reattached, and redeveloped regions of the three-dimensional air flow on an array of finite plates with blunt leading edge. The flow reattachment occurs at a place downstream from the leading edge and the heat transfer coefficient becomes maximum around this region. The heat transfer coefficient is found to increase sharply near the leading edge and reduces in the wake. For the range of the parameters investigated in this study, some correlations have been developed for the length of reattachment region and variation of overall heat transfer coefficient for the considered bluff obstacles with various geometry and flow Reynolds number. For such blunt plates, when they are acting like fins, fin efficiency is determined and a relation based on flow Reynolds number and geometric parameters is developed to predict variation of the overall fin efficiency.


Author(s):  
Akhilesh P. Rallabandi ◽  
Yao-Hsien Liu ◽  
Je-Chin Han

The heat transfer characteristics of a rotating pin-fin roughened wedge shaped channel have been studied. The model incorporates ejection through slots machined on the narrower end of the wedge, simulating a rotor blade trailing edge. The copperplate regional average method is used to determine the heat transfer coefficient; pressure taps have been used to estimate the flow discharged through each slot. Tests have been conducted at high rotation (≈ 1 ) and buoyancy (≈ 2) numbers, in a pressurized rotating rig. Reynolds Numbers investigated range from 10,000 to 40,000 and rotational speeds range from 0–400rpm. Pin-fins studied are made of copper as well as non-conducting garolite. Results show high heat transfer coefficients in the proximity of the slot. A significant enhancement in heat transfer due to the pin-fins, compared with a smooth channel is observed. Even the non-conducting pin-fins, indicative of heat transfer on the end-wall show a significant enhancement in the heat transfer coefficient. Results also show a strong rotation effect, increasing significantly the heat transfer coefficient on the trailing surface — and reducing the heat transfer on the leading surface.


Author(s):  
Zhigang Li ◽  
Luxuan Liu ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Ridge A. Sibold ◽  
Wing F. Ng ◽  
...  

This paper presents a detailed experimental and numerical study on the effects of upstream step geometry on the endwall secondary flow and heat transfer in a transonic linear turbine vane passage with axisymmetric converging endwalls. The upstream step geometry represents the misalignment between the combustor exit and the nozzle guide vane endwall. The experimental measurements were performed in a blowdown wind tunnel with an exit Mach number of 0.85 and an exit Re of 1.5 × 106. A high freestream turbulence level of 16% was set at the inlet, which represents the typical turbulence conditions in a gas turbine engine. Two upstream step geometries were tested for the same vane profile: a baseline configuration with a gap located 0.88Cx (43.8 mm) upstream of the vane leading edge (upstream step height = 0 mm) and a misaligned configuration with a backward facing step located just before the gap at 0.88Cx (43.8 mm) upstream of the vane leading edge (step height = 4.45% span). The endwall temperature history was measured using transient infrared thermography, from which the endwall thermal load distribution, namely Nusselt number, were derived. This paper also presents a comparison with CFD predictions performed by solving the steady-state Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) with Reynolds Stress Model using the commercial CFD solver ANSYS Fluent v.15. The CFD simulations were conducted at a range of different upstream step geometries: three forward-facing (upstream step geometries with step heights from −5.25 to 0% span), and five backward-facing, upstream step geometries (step heights from 0 to 6.56% span). These CFD results were used to highlight the link between heat transfer patterns and the secondary flow structures, and explain the effects of upstream step geometry. Experimental and numerical results indicate that the backward-facing upstream step geometry will significantly enlarge the high thermal load region and result in an obvious increase (up to 140%) in the heat transfer coefficient level, especially for arched regions around the vane leading edge. However, the forward-facing upstream geometry will modestly shrink the high thermal load region and reduce the heat transfer coefficient (by ∼10%–40% decrease), especially for the suction side regions near the vane leading edge. The aerodynamic loss appears to have a slight increase (0.3%–1.3%) as a result of the forward-facing upstream step geometry, but is slightly reduced (by 0.1%–0.3%) by the presence of the backward upstream step geometry.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 112-123
Author(s):  
Jalal M. Jalil ◽  
Ghada A. Aziz ◽  
Amjed A. Kadhim

Experimental and numerical study of fluid flow and heat transfer in microchannel airflow is investigated. The study covers changing the cooling of micro-channel for the velocities and heater powers. The dimensions of the microchannel were, length = 0.1m, width = 0.001m, height = 0.0005 m. The experimental and numerical results were compared with the previous paper for velocities up to 20 m/s and heater powers up to 5 W and the comparison was acceptable. In this paper, the results were extended numerically for velocities up to 60 m/s. The numerical solution used finite volume (SIMPLE algorithm) to solve Navier Stokes equations (continuity, momentum and energy). The results show that the heat transfer coefficient increases up to 220 W/m2 oC for velocity 60 m/s.


Author(s):  
Dong Hyeon Kim ◽  
Joon Sik Lee ◽  
Charn-Jung Kim ◽  
Daesung Lee

Fluid flow and heat transfer in a turbine blade row were investigated numerically using the two-dimensional, steady-state Navier-Stokes equations and the energy equation with dissipation. The finite-volume integration approach was employed to discretize the fully elliptic governing equations. A non-staggered grid system in the boundary-fitted coordinates was used and the compressible version of the SIMPLE was employed to solve extra equations. An ‘O-C-H’ type grid system was applied owing to its advantages of easily treating the blunt trailing edge and of producing less skewness in the boundary layer region. For an accurate prediction of the heat transfer coefficient at the turbine blade, the first numerical node from the wall was placed at y+∼3 so that it was embedded inside the viscous sublayer. The influence of the turbulence was analyzed with a new free-stream turbulence model which accounts for the free-stream turbulence and flow acceleration. Also the laminar-turbulent transition model was improved. Computations were performed for the low solidity Allison C3X turbine cascade. Present results showed good agreement with available experimental data in terms of the surface pressure and the heat transfer coefficient. Especially much improved distribution of the heat transfer coefficient was obtained in the vicinity of the leading and trailing edges. For practical purposes, the aerodynamic performance and the behavior of the heat transfer coefficient were analyzed by varying the inflow angle.


1966 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. Bromley ◽  
R. F. Humphreys ◽  
W. Murray

Heat transfer coefficients on smooth plate rotating evaporator-condensers are reliably predicted by equation (2). Radial machine grooving of the condensing surface improves the heat transfer coefficient in filmwise condensation on this surface by reducing the resistance up to 65 percent. The overall coefficient was improved some 13 percent. Surfaces radially scratched by coarse sandpaper exhibited higher coefficients than smooth surfaces. Sanding the condensation side improved the overall coefficient about 8 percent, and sanding the evaporation side improved it about 10 percent. Care should be used in applying grooves to the evaporation side, however, as they increase the tendency toward local overevaporation and, hence, scale formation. Machined grooves on the evaporation side reduced overall coefficients.


Author(s):  
David J. Geb ◽  
Jonathan Chu ◽  
Feng Zhou ◽  
Ivan Catton

Experimentally determining internal heat transfer coefficients in porous structures has been a challenge in the design of heat exchangers. In this study, a novel combined experimental and computational method for determining the internal heat transfer coefficient within a heat sink is explored and results are obtained for air flow through basic pin fin heat sinks. These measurements along with the pressure drop allow for thermal-fluid modeling of a heat sink by closing the Volume Averaging Theory (VAT)-based governing equations, providing an avenue towards optimization. To obtain the heat transfer coefficient the solid phase is subjected to a step change in heat generation rate via induction heating, while the fluid flows through under steady state conditions. The fluid phase temperature response is measured. The heat transfer coefficient is determined by comparing the results of a numerical simulation based on volume averaging theory with the experimental results. The only information needed is the basic material properties, the flow rate, and the experimental data. The computational procedure alleviates the need for internal solid and fluid phase temperature measurements, which are difficult to make and can disturb the solid-fluid interaction. Moreover, a simple analysis allows us to proceed without knowledge of the heat generation rate, which is difficult to determine precisely. Multiple pin fin heat sink morphologies were selected for this study. Moreover, volume averaging theory scaling arguments allow a single correlation for both the heat transfer coefficient and friction factor that encompass a wide range of pin fin morphologies. It is expected that a precise tool for experimental closure of the VAT-based equations modeling a heat sink as a porous medium will allow for better modeling, and subsequent optimization, of heat sinks.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1961
Author(s):  
Xing Tian ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Zhigang Guo ◽  
Qiuwang Wang ◽  
Bengt Sunden

In the present paper, the heat transfer of gravity-driven dense particle flow around five different shapes of tubes is numerically studied using discrete element method (DEM). The velocity vector, particle contact number, particle contact time and heat transfer coefficient of particle flow at different particle zones around the tube are carefully analyzed. The results show that the effect of tube shape on the particle flow at both upstream and downstream regions of different tubes are remarkable. A particle stagnation zone and particle cavity zone are formed at the upstream and downstream regions of all the tubes. Both the stagnation and cavity zones for the circular tube are the largest, and they are the smallest for the elliptical tube. As the particle outlet velocity (vout) changes from 0.5 mm/s to 8 mm/s at dp = 1.72 mm/s, when compared with the circular tube, the heat transfer coefficient of particle flow for the elliptical tube and flat elliptical tube can increase by 20.3% and 15.0% on average, respectively. The proper design of the downstream shape of the tube can improve the overall heat transfer performance more efficiently. The heat transfer coefficient will increase as particle diameter decreases.


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