Experimental and numerical simulation studies on heat transfer to calorimeters engulfed in diesel pool fires

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudheer Siddapureddy ◽  
SV Prabhu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Numerical Code ◽  
Pool Fires ◽  
Steel Pipes ◽  
Adiabatic Surface ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Good Agreement

Characterization of heat transfer to calorimeters engulfed in pool fires is extremely important. To estimate the heat flux to the calorimeters, experiments are performed with horizontal stainless steel 304L pipes engulfed in diesel pool fires. The concept of adiabatic surface temperature is applied to predict the incident heat flux to horizontally oriented calorimeters engulfed in diesel pool fires. Plate thermometers are used to measure the adiabatic surface temperature for diesel pool fires. The estimated subsurface temperatures inside the steel pipes using the adiabatic surface temperature concept and the measured temperatures are in good agreement. Adiabatic surface temperature is also computed from fire simulations. The incident heat fluxes to the steel pipes engulfed in fire predicted from the simulations are found to be in good agreement with the experiments. The fire numerical code is validated against the 1 m pool fire experimental results of centerline temperature distribution and irradiances away from fire. A correlation is provided for the estimation of adiabatic surface temperature for large diesel pool fires. These results would provide an effective way for thermal test simulations.

Heat Transfer Predictions Using Accommodation Coefficients for a Dense Gas in a Micro/Nano-Channel

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Nedea ◽  
A. J. Markvoort ◽  
P. Spijker ◽  
A. A. van Steenhoven
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Md Simulations ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Dense Gas ◽  
Nano Channel ◽  
Accommodation Coefficients ◽  
Gas Interactions ◽  
Wall Interactions ◽  
Good Agreement

The influence of gas-gas and gas-wall interactions on the heat flux predictions for a dense gas confined between two parallel walls of a micro/nano-channel is realized using combined Monte Carlo (MC) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) techniques. The accommodation coefficients are computed from explicit MD simulations. These MD coefficients are then used as effective accommodation coefficients in Maxwell-like boundary conditions in MC simulations. We find that heat flux predictions from MC based on these coefficients compare good with the results of explicit simulations except the case when there are hydrophobic gas-wall/gas-gas interactions. For this case an artificial wall was introduced in order to measure these MD accommodation coefficients at this artificial border. Good agreement is found then for both hydrophilic and hydrophobic gas-wall interactions and we show this by confronting the heat fluxes from explicit MD simulations with the the MC heat flux predictions for all the generic accommodation coefficients.

Prediction of Refrigerant Flow Boiling Hysteresis With an Augmented Separated-Flow Model

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Gao ◽  
Hongxia Li ◽  
Saif Almheiri ◽  
TieJun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Separated Flow ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Boiling Hysteresis

Thermal management is essential to compact devices particularly for high heat flux removal applications. As a popular thermal technology, refrigeration cooling is able to provide relatively high heat flux removal capability and uniform device surface temperature. In a refrigeration cycle, the performance of evaporator is extremely important to the overall cooling efficiency. In a well-designed evaporator, effective flow boiling heat transfer can be achieved whereas the critical heat flux (CHF) or dryout condition must be avoided. Otherwise the device surface temperature would rise significantly and cause device burnout due to the poor heat transfer performance of film boiling. In order to evaluate the influence of varying imposed heat fluxes, saturated flow boiling in the evaporator is systematically studied. The complete refrigerant flow boiling hysteresis between the imposed heat flux and the exit wall superheat is characterized. Upon the occurrence of CHF at the evaporator wall exit, the wall heat flux redistributes due to the axial wall heat conduction, which drives the dryout point to propagate upstream in the evaporator. As a result, a significant amount of thermal energy is stored in the evaporator wall. While the heat flux starts decreasing, the dryout point moves downstream and closer to the exit. The stored heat in the wall dissipates slowly and leads to the delay in rewetting or quenching, which is the key to understand and predict the flow boiling hysteresis. In order to reveal the transient heat releasing mechanism, an augmented separated-flow model is developed to predict the moving rewetting point and minimum heat flux at the evaporator exit, and the model predictions are further validated by experimental data from a refrigeration cooling testbed.

HEAT TRANSFER WITH SURFACE BOILING

1948 ◽  
Vol 26a (4) ◽  
pp. 268-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Boiling Point ◽  
Volume Flow Rate ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Bulk Liquid ◽  
Bulk Temperature ◽  
Liquid Temperature ◽  
Transfer Constant

These experiments were undertaken to investigate the transfer of heat from solid surfaces to flowing water. The bulk temperature of the cooling water was below the boiling point, and the surface temperature of the heat transfer tube went to about 100 °C. above the boiling point. Water velocities ranged up to 10 ft. sec.−1 and heat fluxes up to 720 w. cm.−2. The non-dimensionless heat transfer constant a in the Dittus and Boelter formula (Nu) = a(Re)0.8 (Pr)0.4, which under normal forced convection has a value of 2.30 × 10−2, increased to four times the normal value under the surface boiling conditions. It is shown graphically that the constant a bears a simple relation to the heat flux and the length–diameter ratio for surface temperatures below a certain value. For constant heat flux and volume flow rate, the surface temperature rises with rising bulk liquid temperature until it reaches the certain value of the surface temperature referred to above. The surface temperature then remains constant with further rise in the bulk liquid temperature until conditions become too unstable for measurements.

Experimental investigation of combustion and heat transfer in a direct-injection spark ignition engine via instantaneous combustion chamber surface temperature measurements

2008 ◽  
Vol 222 (11) ◽  
pp. 2219-2233 ◽  
Author(s):  
K-W Cho ◽  
D Assanis ◽  
Z Filipi ◽  
G Szekely ◽  
P Najt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Combustion Chamber ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Spark Ignition ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Instantaneous Combustion ◽  
Direct Injection Spark Ignition

An experimental study was performed to provide the combustion and in-cylinder heat transfer characteristics resulting from different injection strategies in a direct-injection spark ignition (DISI) engine. Fast-response thermocouples were embedded in the piston top and cylinder head surface to measure the instantaneous combustion chamber surface temperature and heat flux, thus providing critical information about the combustion characteristics and a thorough understanding of the heat transfer process. Two distinctive operating modes, homogeneous and stratified, were considered and their effect on combustion and heat transfer in a DISI engine was investigated. The stratified operating mode yielded significantly higher spatial variations of heat flux than the homogeneous mode. This behaviour is directly caused by the main features of stratified combustion, i.e. vigorous burning of a close-to-stoichiometric mixture near the spark, and a cool, extremely lean mixture at the periphery. The cooling effect of the spray impinging on the piston surface when the fuel is injected late in compression could be detected too. The local phenomena change with varying speed and injection parameters. Comparison between the calculated global heat fluxes and measured local heat fluxes were performed in order to assess the behaviour of classic heat transfer models. Comparisons between the global and local heat fluxes provide additional insight into spatial variations, as well as indications about the suitability of different classic models for investigations of the heat transfer aspect of DISI engines. Special consideration is required when applying classic heat transfer correlations to stratified DISI operation as heat flux values are lower by more than 30 per cent when compared with homogeneous operation of the same engine at the same load.

scholarly journals Assessing IDDES-Based Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation (WMLES) for Separated Flows with Heat Transfer

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Rozie Zangeneh
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Large Eddy Simulation ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Separated Flows ◽  
Detached Eddy Simulation ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Isothermal Wall

The Wall-modeled Large-eddy Simulation (WMLES) methods are commonly accompanied with an underprediction of the skin friction and a deviation of the velocity profile. The widely-used Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (IDDES) method is suggested to improve the prediction of the mean skin friction when it acts as WMLES, as claimed by the original authors. However, the model tested only on flow configurations with no heat transfer. This study takes a systematic approach to assess the performance of the IDDES model for separated flows with heat transfer. Separated flows on an isothermal wall and walls with mild and intense heat fluxes are considered. For the case of the wall with heat flux, the skin friction and Stanton number are underpredicted by the IDDES model however, the underprediction is less significant for the isothermal wall case. The simulations of the cases with intense wall heat transfer reveal an interesting dependence on the heat flux level supplied; as the heat flux increases, the IDDES model declines to predict the accurate skin friction.

scholarly journals Experimental Determination of the Heat Transfer Coefficient of Real Cooled Geometry Using Linear Regression Method

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Asif Ali ◽  
Lorenzo Cocchi ◽  
Alessio Picchi ◽  
Bruno Facchini
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
External Surface ◽  
Internal Surface ◽  
Regression Method ◽  
Thermal Transient

The scope of this work was to develop a technique based on the regression method and apply it on a real cooled geometry for measuring its internal heat transfer distribution. The proposed methodology is based upon an already available literature approach. For implementation of the methodology, the geometry is initially heated to a known steady temperature, followed by thermal transient, induced by injection of ambient air to its internal cooling system. During the thermal transient, external surface temperature of the geometry is recorded with the help of infrared camera. Then, a numerical procedure based upon a series of transient finite element analyses of the geometry is applied by using the obtained experimental data. The total test duration is divided into time steps, during which the heat flux on the internal surface is iteratively updated to target the measured external surface temperature. The final procured heat flux and internal surface temperature data of each time step is used to find the convective heat transfer coefficient via linear regression. This methodology is successfully implemented on three geometries: a circular duct, a blade with U-bend internal channel, and a cooled high pressure vane of real engine, with the help of a test rig developed at the University of Florence, Italy. The results are compared with the ones retrieved with similar approach available in the open literature, and the pros and cons of both methodologies are discussed in detail for each geometry.

High-output diesel engine heat transfer: Part 1 - comparison between piston heat flux and global energy balance

2021 ◽  
pp. 146808742110170
Author(s):  
Eric Gingrich ◽  
Michael Tess ◽  
Vamshi Korivi ◽  
Jaal Ghandhi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Diesel Engine ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
Start Of Injection ◽  
Local Measurements ◽  
Surface Temperature Data ◽  
High Output

High-output diesel engine heat transfer measurements are presented in this paper, which is the first of a two-part series of papers. Local piston heat transfer, based on fast-response piston surface temperature data, is compared to global engine heat transfer based on thermodynamic data. A single-cylinder research engine was operated at multiple conditions, including very high-output cases – 30 bar IMEPg and 250 bar in-cylinder pressure. A wireless telemetry system was used to acquire fast-response piston surface temperature data, from which heat flux was calculated. An interpolation and averaging procedure was developed and a method to recover the steady-state portion of the heat flux based on the in-cylinder thermodynamic state was applied. The local measurements were spatially integrated to find total heat transfer, which was found to agree well with the global thermodynamic measurements. A delayed onset of the rise of spatially averaged heat flux was observed for later start of injection timings. The dataset is internally consistent, for example, the local measurements match the global values, which makes it well suited for heat transfer correlation development; this development is pursued in the second part of this paper.

scholarly journals Operating temperatures of oil-lubricated medium-speed gears: Numerical models and experimental results

2003 ◽  
Vol 217 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Long ◽  
A A Lord ◽  
D T Gethin ◽  
B J Roylance
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Rotational Speed ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Applied Load ◽  
Frictional Heat ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Gear Teeth ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients

This paper investigates the effects of gear geometry, rotational speed and applied load, as well as lubrication conditions on surface temperature of high-speed gear teeth. The analytical approach and procedure for estimating frictional heat flux and heat transfer coefficients of gear teeth in high-speed operational conditions was developed and accounts for the effect of oil mist as a cooling medium. Numerical simulations of tooth temperature based on finite element analysis were established to investigate temperature distributions and variations over a range of applied load and rotational speed, which compared well with experimental measurements. A sensitivity analysis of surface temperature to gear configuration, frictional heat flux, heat transfer coefficients, and oil and ambient temperatures was conducted and the major parameters influencing surface temperature were evaluated.

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