Numerical Study of Heat Transfer in Pulsating Turbulent Air Flow

A numerical investigation of heat transfer characteristics of pulsating turbulent flow in a circular tube is carried out. The flow is thermally and hydrodynamically fully developed and the tube wall is subjected to a uniform heat flux. The flow inlet to the pipe consists of fixed component and pulsa...

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Main Authors: Elshafei, E.A.M., Safwat Mohamed, M., Mansour, H., Sakr, M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological information theory
Biology computing
Computational fluid dynamics
Frequency
Geometry
Heat engines
Heat transfer
Power engineering and energy
Temperature
Thermal engineering
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Summary:A numerical investigation of heat transfer characteristics of pulsating turbulent flow in a circular tube is carried out. The flow is thermally and hydrodynamically fully developed and the tube wall is subjected to a uniform heat flux. The flow inlet to the pipe consists of fixed component and pulsating component that varies sinusoidally with time. The flow and temperature fields are computed numerically using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Fluent code. Prediction of heat transfer characteristics is performed over a range of 10 4 les Re 4 times 10 4 and 0 les f les 70 are observed. Results showed little reduction in the mean time-averaged Nusselt number with respect to that of steady flow. However, in the fully developed established region, the local Nusselt number either increases or decreases over the steady flow-values depending on the frequency parameter. These noticed deviations are rather small in magnitude for the computed parameter ranges. The characteristics of heat transfer are qualitatively consistent with the available experimental and numerical predictions
DOI:10.1109/THETA.2007.363411