Natural convection heat transfer and boundary layer transition for vertical heated cylinders

•Influence of curvature on heat transfer and regime transition studied experimentally.•Local surface temperature and PIV data collected from 5 heater sizes.•Continuous Nusselt correlations developed using a novel method to scale curvature. This experimental study characterizes the effect of radius o...

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Published in:Experimental thermal and fluid science 2019-07, Vol.105, p.367-380
Main Authors: Goodrich, Samuel S., Marcum, Wade R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boundary layer transition
Boundary layers
Convection
Correlation
Cylinders
Empirical analysis
Fluid dynamics
Free convection
Heat flux
Heat transfer
Laminar boundary layer
Laminar flow
Natural convection
Nusselt correlation
Particle image velocimetry
Radius of curvature
Regime transition
Temperature sensors
Thermocouples
Turbulent flow
Velocity measurement
Vertical cylinders
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Summary:•Influence of curvature on heat transfer and regime transition studied experimentally.•Local surface temperature and PIV data collected from 5 heater sizes.•Continuous Nusselt correlations developed using a novel method to scale curvature. This experimental study characterizes the effect of radius of curvature on heat transfer and boundary layer regime transition from laminar to turbulent flow on vertical heated cylinders with a heat flux boundary. Spatially-resolved temperature and velocity data was gathered from a series of five heated cylinders with unique diameters using distributed temperature sensors, thermocouples, and particle image velocimetry. A novel geometric relation has been derived to quantify the influence of curvature on heat transfer and regime transition which has proven to be in good agreement with empirical results. Advanced experimental and analysis methods have been implemented to yield the first continuous, local, curvature-dependent Nusselt correlation for the laminar, transition, and turbulent regimes for natural convection from vertical heated cylinders. As part of this correlation, empirical curvature-dependent dimensionless expressions for predicting regime transition have been developed from three separate data types and are used to define the bounds of the Nusselt correlation regimes.
ISSN:0894-1777
1879-2286
DOI:10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2019.04.010