Numerical Simulation of Flow Field and Heat Transfer inside a New Enhanced Tube

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 2629-2634
Author(s):  
Cheng Long Xu ◽  
Wei Jun Liu ◽  
Wei Ping Hu

A numerical simulation was carried out for the flow and heat transfer in the Double-Inclined Streamlined Ribs tube (DISR tube) which is used in the automobile exhaust heat recovery. This paper is aimed to find the optimum ribs parameters for best heat transfer perfomance. The solution was calculated by ANSYS/FLUENT and the SIMPLEC algorithm was used for the velocity-pressure coupling. The results shows that the optimal value of DISR tube is rib length (l=38mm), rib inclined degree (α=45o), rib height (h=2.5mm) and rib pitch (P=60mm). The heat transfer in the DISR tube is enhanced 72.6% on average compared with a plain tube and the friction factor increases 180.9% on average at Re=12000~50000. In the DISR tube, the field synergy angle reduce from 90° to 80° and the heat transfer is enhanced significantly. The paper shows that the field synergy angle declines greatly near every ribs, and this is the chief reason for the heat transfer enhancement.

2020 ◽  
Vol 310 ◽  
pp. 00039
Author(s):  
Kamila Kotrasova ◽  
Vladimira Michalcova

The numerical simulation of flow process and heat transfer phenomena demands the solution of continuous differential equation and energy-conservation equations coupled with the continuity equation. The choosing of computation parameters in numerical simulation of computation domain have influence on accuracy of obtained results. The choose parameters, as mesh density, mesh type and computation procedures, for the numerical diffusion of computation domain were analysed and compared. The CFD simulation in ANSYS – Fluent was used for numerical simulation of 3D stational temperature flow of the computation domain.


2014 ◽  
Vol 535 ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
Chen Hong Zhao ◽  
Yong Gang Lei

Heat transfer and resistance characteristics of a tube inserted delta-winglet (inclination angle is 10 °) are studied by numerical simulation. The results show that the delta-winglet enhance the heat transfer of the enhancement tube inserted delta-winglet and improve the PEC with modest pressure drop penalties. Compared with based tubes, the delta-wings structure enhance the heat transfer 19.52%-31%.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166
Author(s):  
Aneta Bohojło-Wiśniewska

Summary This paper presents an example of humid air flow around a single head of Chinese cabbage under conditions of complex heat transfer. This kind of numerical simulation allows us to create a heat and humidity transfer model between the Chinese cabbage and the flowing humid air. The calculations utilize the heat transfer model in porous medium, which includes the temperature difference between the solid (vegetable tissue) and fluid (air) phases of the porous medium. Modelling and calculations were performed in ANSYS Fluent 14.5 software.


Author(s):  
H. X. Liang ◽  
Q. W. Wang ◽  
L. Q. Luo ◽  
Z. P. Feng

Three-dimensional numerical simulation was conducted to investigate the flow field and heat transfer performance of the Cross-Wavy Primary Surface (CWPS) recuperators for microturbines. Using high-effective compact recuperators to achieve high thermal efficiency is one of the key techniques in the development of microturbine in recent years. Recuperators need to have minimum volume and weight, high reliability and durability. Most important of all, they need to have high thermal-effectiveness and low pressure-losses so that the gas turbine system can achieve high thermal performances. These requirements have attracted some research efforts in designing and implementing low-cost and compact recuperators for gas turbine engines recently. One of the promising techniques to achieve this goal is the so-called primary surface channels with small hydraulic dimensions. In this paper, we conducted a three-dimensional numerical study of flow and heat transfer for the Cross-Wavy Primary Surface (CWPS) channels with two different geometries. In the CWPS configurations the secondary flow is created by means of curved and interrupted surfaces, which may disturb the thermal boundary layers and thus improve the thermal performances of the channels. To facilitate comparison, we chose the identical hydraulic diameters for the above four CWPS channels. Since our experiments on real recuperators showed that the Reynolds number ranges from 150 to 500 under the operating conditions, we implemented all the simulations under laminar flow situations. By analyzing the correlations of Nusselt numbers and friction factors vs. Reynolds numbers of the four CWPS channels, we found that the CWPS channels have superior and comprehensive thermal performance with high compactness, i.e., high heat transfer area to volume ratio, indicating excellent commercialized application in the compact recuperators.


2013 ◽  
Vol 712-715 ◽  
pp. 1600-1604
Author(s):  
Jing Zhao ◽  
Bao Lan Xiao ◽  
Wei Ming Wu ◽  
Xiao Li Yu ◽  
Guo Dong Lu

The excellent thermal hydraulic performances of coolers are the foundations of vehicular safety and stability. Structure, material, fin type and arrangement all have important effects on the thermal hydraulic performances. Numerical simulation method was adopted in this paper to investigate the effect of fin arrangement. The fluid flow and heat transfer performances were contrasted and analyzed under two different fin arrangements. It was found that fin arrangement effected thermal hydraulic performances severely and during the design process of a cooler, the performance requirements could be met through adjusting fin arrangements.


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