• Title/Summary/Keyword: Natural Convection Heat Transfer

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Thermal Convection with Conducting Lid (전도체가 존재하는 자연대류 현상에 대한 수치적 유동 가시화)

  • Ha Man Yeong;Lee Jae Ryong;Balachandar S.
    • 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.12a
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    • pp.117-120
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    • 2005
  • This study of thermal convection uses the following geometry: a horizontal layer of fluid heated from below of solid lid at bottom and cooled from above. A variety range of thermal conductivity ratio, $\kappa$ is considered to investigate the interface temperature, $\theta_{i}$ between solid and fluid region. Periodic boundary conditions are employed in the horizontal direction to allow for lateral freedom for the convection cells. A two-dimensional solution for unsteady natural convection is obtained, using an accurate and efficient Chebyshev spectral multi-domain methodology, for different effective Rayleigh numbers, $Ra_{eff}$ varying over the range of $10^{4}\;to\;10^{7}$ in which the effective Rayleigh number is defined as $Ra{\times}<\overline{T}_{i}>$.

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Transient heat transfer analysis of functionally graded CNT reinforced cylinders with various boundary conditions

  • Moradi-Dastjerdi, Rasool;Payganeh, Gholamhassan
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.359-367
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    • 2017
  • In this work, transient heat transfer analysis of functionally graded (FG) carbon nanotube reinforced nanocomposite (CNTRC) cylinders with various essential and natural boundary conditions is investigated by a mesh-free method. The cylinders are subjected to thermal flux, convection environments and constant temperature faces. The material properties of the nanocomposite are estimated by an extended micro mechanical model in volume fraction form. The distribution of carbon nanotube (CNT) has a linear variation along the radial direction of axisymmetric cylinder. In the mesh-free analysis, moving least squares shape functions are used for approximation of temperature field in the weak form of heat transform equation and the transformation method is used for the imposition of essential boundary conditions. Newmark method is applied for solution time depended problem. The effects of CNT distribution pattern and volume fraction, cylinder thickness and boundary conditions are investigated on the transient temperature field of the nanocomposite cylinders.

CFD Analysis of Natural Convection Flow Characteristics of Various Gases in the Spent Fuel Dry Storage System

  • Shin, Doyoung;Jeong, Uiju;Jeun, Gyoodong;Kim, Sung Joong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2016
  • Objective of this study is to compare the inherent characteristics of natural convection flow inside the canister of spent fuel dry storage system with different backfill gases by utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. Four working fluids were selected for comparison study. Helium currently used backfill gas for canister, air, nitrogen, and argon are frequently used as coolant in many heat transfer applications. The results indicate that helium has very distinct conductive behavior and show very weak natural convective flow compared to the others. Argon showed the strongest natural convective flow but also the worst coolability. Air and nitrogen showed similar characteristics to each other. However, due to difference in Prandtl number, nitrogen showed more effective natural convective flow. These results suggest that experimental validation for the nitrogen is needed to investigate the potential coolability other than currently commercially used helium.

Heat Transfer Analysis and BOG Estimation of Membrane-Type LNG Cargo during Laden Voyage (멤브레인형 LNG선 Cargo의 만선항해시 열전달 해석 및 BOG 평가)

  • Heo, Jin-Uk;Lee, Young-Ju;Cho, Jin-Rae;Ha, Mun-Keun;Lee, Joong-Nam
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.393-400
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    • 2003
  • Excessive generation of BOG during the LNG transportation not only causes the severe financial loss but also leads to the unexpected disaster. Therefore, the carrier cargo insulating interior LNG should be carefully designed based upon an accurate heat transfer analysis. However. it is not simple to analyze heat transfer of LNG cargo, because it is in a complex insulation structure and LNG carrier experiences a complicated heat transfer according to various kinds of voyage conditions. In this paper, we carried out the transient finite element heat transfer analysis for a cargo of Mark-111 membrane-type LNG carrier during laden voyage, and we compared heat transfer rates between considering natural convection and considering conduction. For this goal, we developed a PCL program incorporating with a commercial MSC/NASTRAN FEM code.

Laminar Natural Convection Heat Transfer from an Isothermal Rectangular Beam Attached to Horizontal and Vertical Adiabatic Plates (수직 및 수평 단열판에 부착된 등온 사각비임에서의 자연대류 열전달)

  • 박재림;권순석
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 1992
  • Laminar natural convection heat transfer from an isothermal rectangular beam attached to horizontal and vertical adiabatic plates has been studied for various aspect ratios of the beam and Grashof numbers. The local Nusselt number was increased with decreasing H/B for the constant beam width, B, and with increasing H/B for the constant beam height, H. The total mean Nusselt number of the vertical type was higher than that of horizontal type in the range of H/B.leq.0.52, but reversed in the H/B>0.52 at constant beam width. The total mean Nusselt number of the horizontal type was generally higher than that of vertical type at constant beam height. The total mean Nusselt number of the vertical type was higher than that of horizontal type in the range of H/B.leq.0.43 at constant wetted perimeter, but reversed in the H/B$\leq$0.43.

A Numerical Study on the Natural Convection from a Square Beam with a Horizontal Adiabatic Plate (수평단열판에 부착된 등온사각비임에서의 자연대류 열전달에 관학 수치해석)

  • Bae, Sok-Tae;Park, Jae-Lim;Kwon, Sun-Sok
    • Solar Energy
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.22-30
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    • 1990
  • Steady laminar natural convection heat transfer from a square beam with a horizontal adiabatic plate has been studied numerically for various Grashof numbers and beam shapes. The heat transfer from a square beam increases as the dimensionless beam width W / L decreases. The mean Nusselt number of the upper surface is minimum at W / L = 1.0, maximum at W / L = 0.25 and that of the side surface is minimum at W / L = 0.25, maximum at W / L = 1.0. The increases of the total mean Nusselt number with increasing Grashof number is dominated by the beam width.

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Close-contact melting of ice in a horizontal cylinder (수평원관내 얼음의 접촉융해과정)

  • ;;Ro, Sung Tack
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.2595-2606
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    • 1995
  • Buoyancy-assisted melting of an unconstrained ice in an isothermally heated horizontal enclosure was numerically analyzed in a range of wall temperatures encompassing the density inversion point. The problem as posed here involves two physically distinct domains each of which has its own scales and respective heat transfer mode. These two domains join at the junction where the liquid squeezed out of the film region flushes into the lower melt pool. Both of these domains have been treated separately in the literature by a patching technique which invokes several, otherwise unnecessary, assumptions. The present study eliminates successfully such a superfluous procedure by treating the film and lower melt pool regions as a single domain. As a result of this efficient solution procedure, the interaction of the water stream ejected at the junction and the natural convection in the melt pool could be clarified for different wall temperatures. Though limited by two-dimensionality, the present results conformed indirectly the earlier reported transition of the flow pattern, as the wall temperature was increased over the density inversion point. The transient evolution of the melting surface, the time rate of change in melt volume fraction, the local and temporal variation of the heat transfer coefficients are analyzed and presented.