Analysis of Heat Transfer and Optimal Parameters of Multi-louvered Fin Condenser

The authors conduct the experimental study and optimal computing for the condenser of automobile air conditioner. The especially the properties of heat transfer and flow at the side of air when using shutter fin. The authors the influence of several combinations of fin's geometry parameter to heat transfer and flow resistance. The maximal heat transfer is used as a criterion relation to select the fin's geometry parameters in the same facing air area of condenser. Furthermore, a program is designed to conduct optimal computing, and the computing results are basically consistent with experimental results. It shows that the optimal method is reasonable and the results can be applied to engineering practice.     

Experimental Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in Heat Exchanger with Small Channels

The experimental study of the flow resistance and heat transfer characteristics are conducted for water and ethylene glycol solution (66% Wt) flowing in the heat exchanger with small rectangular microchannels . The heat exchanger having the channels of 0.4 mm in width, 2.0 mm in height, and 20 mm in length is heated by a hearing rod at the bottom surface, the upper and two side surfaces are adiabatic. During experiments, the Reynolds number are ranged from 2 to 2 500. The experimental results show that the flow friction factor decreases and Nusselt number increases with increasing Reynolds number for water and ethylene glycol solution. At a fixed Reynolds number, the Nusselt number for ethylene glycol solution with larger Prandtl number is greater than that for water. Meanwhile, the correlations of flow resistance and heat transfer in the heat exchanger with small channels are obtained for engineering application.     

AN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON ENHANCEMENT OF HEAT TRANSFER OF FINNED TUBES IN REFRIGERANT HEAT EXCHANGER

In this paper,the comparative experimental research that air flows through theout-surface of a single row finned tubes is done in a drawing wind tunnel and the three differnetshapes of rectangluar finned tubes are compared with a plain finned tube that is usually used in therefrigerant heat exchanger, the useful results are obtained. The results show that,in the range ofwind velocity flowing through the marrowest area, W_(max)=2.5m/s to 8.5m/s,the average convec-tion heat transfer coefficient of the two-side V-groove finned tube is higher than that of rectangluarplain finned tube,It is a new type finned tube that has good heat transfer performance and it isworth poplarlzing.     

Heat transfer performance of heat pipe rotating about parallel axes

We conducted an experimental study of heat pipe rotating about parallel axes. The entire pin fin of non contact thermal resistance was used in the cooling section of the heat pipes. The experimental liquid filled volume range from 10% to 25%, and heat flux density range was 7×103W/m2 to 5.3×104 W/m2. A cooling current of air was formed by the heat pipe rotation. The Reynolds number range was 2.3×103 to 1.2×104. The experimental results indicate that the heat transfer performance of the heat pipe was the best when liquid filled volume reached 20%. The heat transfer capability strengthened gradually along with the increasing rotational speed. The change of the heat power had little impact on the heat transfer performance of the heat pipe. It was found that the absorption liquid core was of little use to the heat transfer performance of the heat pipe. Under the same conditions, the heat transfer performance of the parallel rotating heat pipe was 1.5 times that of co axial rotating heat pipe.     

Experimental Analysis on Function of Free Cooling Unit with a Pump-driven Loop Heat Pipe for Internet Data Center

A free cooling unit with a pump-driven loop heat pipe was designed for internet data center (IDC), and its components and working processes were described. The experiment system for the developed prototype was built and the comprehensive studies were conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that the coefficient of performance (COP) of the unit can reach to 5.88 when the temperature difference between IDC indoor and outdoor is 10℃, and it will be 10.41 when the temperature difference is 18℃. When mass flow rate of the working fluid in the unit changes within a certain range, namely the gasification rate of the fluid being between 2% and 50%, there is no significant changes for the heat transfer capacity. And there is an approximately linear relationship between the capacity and the temperature difference. Meanwhile, with the increase of the system resistance, both temperature difference of the fluid between inlet and outlet of the evaporator and the proportion of the sensible heat to the capacity also increase.     

Coupled Conduction-convective Heat Transfer in the Louvered Fin Heat Exchanger

The heat transfer process in the louvered fin heat exchanger is analyzed,and the corresponding physical and mathematical models on the coupled conduction-convective heat transfer for the louver fin geometry are proposed.The control volume-based finite element method(CVFEM) is employed to solve numerically the problem.The computed(results) reveal the flow structure and heat transfer in the geometry in detail.Compared with the empirical correlation of heat transfer and friction coefficients previously proposed,the computed results show better consistency with the experimental results.     

Pressure Drop and Evaporative Heat Transfer Characteristics of Air-water Bubbling Flow

A new kind of evaporative heat transfer experiment for the cooling process of condensers is conducted. The test coil is immersed in an air-water bubbling layer. The air-water two-phase flow passes through the heating tubes of the coil. Due to the motion of the air bubbles in the water, a thin water film forms on the surface of the heating tubes. As the air bubbles passing by the tubes the water is evaporated into the air. The tubes of coil reject heat to the water film, and the evaporation of the water film then rejects heat to the air bubble stream. This heat transfer mode significantly increases the heat transfer coefficient between tubes and air. The consumption of the power of a water pump can be decreased. Moreover, the airflow rate required is less than that of an air-cooled condenser.The pressure drop of air through air-water bubbling layer and the heat transfer between the tubes and water are experimentally investigated in the paper. The results show that the factors affecting the pressure drop and the heat transfer coefficient involve the pore geometry of sieve plate, the height of the air-water bubbling layer, the air flow rate through the sieve plate and the heat flux of tubes. The heat transfer coefficient between tube and water is two times larger than that of falling film of water on the outer surface of tube.     

Numerical Study of FLow and Heat Transfer in Rectangular CHannel with Dimpled SUrface

This authors uses a physical model of the rectangular channel with dimpled surface to simulate the flow and heat transfer situation. On the basis of actual flow and heat transfer in the channel, it made the interrelated hypothesizes and built up the math model. They adopted the turbulent model, appliy the algorithm to resolve the pressure-velocity coupling and use the experimental data model to check up the feasibility of the model. By the study, the thesis shows the principle of the flow and heat transfer in narrow channel with a dimple surface and gets the factors and the conditions that affect the flow and heat transfer. The results show that the geometry structure and rank distributing of dimple affect the capability of heat transfer evidently. When Reynolds number is low, the capability of heat transfer becomes better as the number increases, and when Reynolds number is bigger than a critical point, there is a little influence.     

The effects of wall parameters on CH4 catalytic combustion in micro-channels

The paper uses CFD simulation to investigate the catalytic surface reaction and heat loss characteristics of premixed CH4/air in micro-channels with Platinum catalyst. A 3D model is used with the detailed surface elementary reaction mechanism, which includes the coupled heat transfer of wall and flow domain, solid wall thermal conductivity and the convection and surface radiation between wall and the environment. The results show that the thermal conductivity has a big impact on the uniformity of wall temperature. The convective heat transfer coefficients and the surface emissivity are the key factors to determine the external heat loss of micro-combustor. An increase of wall depth can reduce the external heat loss per unit area, but it increases the total heat loss. The change of the amount of heat loss changes the reaction rate and residence time of mixed gas in the channel, which affect the methane conversion. The research indicates that the material with bigger thermal conductivity is better to fabricate micro-combustors, and the multi-methods are needed to reduce the wall heat loss.     

Thermodynamic Analysis of River Water Fouling on Constant Wall Temperature Tube of Small Diameter

In order to improve utilization of cold and heat source from river, turbulence theory and entropy generation theory were adopted to analyze the effect of fouling on convective heat transfer performance in small diameter tube of constant wall temperature.It is found that the entropy generation caused by conduction of fouling plays a more important role in total entropy generation of heat transfer process through a duct than that in cveast rate of caused by temperature difference.The entropy generation caused by viscous flow is more than the entropy generation caused by temperature difference in flow with bigger Reynolds and small radius.The increase rate of entropy generation monotonically increase with Reynolds and the generation process of fouling resistance.Thereafter, the effect of fouling resistance on the heat transfer performance of water source heat pump heat exchanger should be paid more attention, when river water are used as the cold and heat source of heat pump.     

Influence numerical analysis of combustion chamber thermal boundary conditions on unsteady combustion characteristics in micro ICE

To research the influence of combustion chamber thermal boundary conditions on micro combustion characteristics in micro ICE, the laminar flow finite rate model is adopted to simulate the micro combustion process. Firstly, the influence of grid scale, the time step length and the maximum iterations per time step on accuracy of simulation results are explored. The results show that simulation results agree well with experimental results. And then, the influences of heat transfer coefficient, wall thickness and material on combustion characteristics are discussed. The results indicate that heat transfer coefficient has obvious influence on combustion characteristics. The pressure rise rate decreases, the ignition delays and the highest pressure value drops 2 atmospheres as heat transfer coefficient increases from 0 to 55 W/(m 2·K). The wall thickness and material have a little effect on combustion characteristics. This is because that the main heat transfer resistance in the heat flow path from cylinder to external environment lies between the outer wall and environment.     

Conjugate Natural Convective Heat Transfer in an Enclosure with Discrete Protruded Heat Sources

The mathematic model on natural convection is proposed in a two-dimensional enclosure cavity with an isothermal heat sink at one vertical wall and five discrete protruded sources. Numerical study is performed to analyze the natural convection in the enclosure with a variety of aspect ratio, the range of which is from 3.0 to 12.22, Ra H is 10 7 and Pr is 30.The computed results show that the total heat transfer effect under the situation with discrete protruded heat sources is prior to that with flat wall heated. Moreover, when the aspect ratio is comparatively large, there is several secondary flow in the enclosure, which enhance the convective heat transfer. On the contrary, when the aspect ratio is small, the secondary flow weakened or disappeared, and the total convective heat transfer drop. Finally, the convective heat transfer criteria in the enclosure is obtained.     

Performance of closed heat source tower under spraying conditions

Compling a program by matlab to investigate closed heat source tower operating under spraying conditions. The numerical results of the spray solution temperature, the refrigerant temperature, air enthalpy value were compared with the experimental ones. The program was used to calculate the distribution of the spray temperature, refrigerant temperature, air enthalpy in the closed heat source tower under spraying conditions. Some results were obtained. The air enthalpy is linear distribution and upper fin heat exchanger heat transfer effect is better than the lower part.The center of the tower is firstly frosting. The air dry bulb temperature is above 5.1 ℃and relative humidity is above 75%. The closed heat source heat pump system is without risk of frost, so stopping the spray pump is viable in order to reduce the energy consumption of the operation of the heat pump system.     

The Influence of Width of Flag-type Inserts on the Forced Convection of Oil in a Tube

Experimental study of forced convection heat transfer in a horizontal circulartube with ladder-shaped flag-type insert is performed to investigate the characteristics of fluid flow ,heat transfer and the influence of width of flag insert.The working fluid is 30# turbine oil.Theresult shows that the increase of W/D causes the increase of heat transfer coefficient and resistanceforce of fluid flow. The heat transfer coefficient can be enhanced mainly within the length of ninetimes of inner diameter of tube for oil.In the range of experiment, the value of creteria to evaluatethe combined effect is between 1.13 and 1.59.     

Experiments on Convective Heat Transfer for Various Media Flowing Turbulently in Tubes with Three Dimensional Internally Extended Surface

This paper presents the experimental results of convective heat transfer performance in 5 copper tubes with three dimensional internally extended surface, with flow of various test fluid in the Reynolds number range of 8,000 to 80,000. Water and mixture of ethylene glycol with water (the ethylene glycol weight content equals 55%) are chosen as test fluid. The effect of the physical properties for test fluid on heat transfer performance in the tubes with three dimensional internally extended surface is discussed. The heat transfer correlation is obtained by the experimental data.     

Optimization of Subway Indirect Evaporative Cooler Water Distribution Methods

In conventional indirect evaporative cooler, the lack of uniformity and integrity of water film surface results in low thermal efficiency. To solve the problem,an indirect evaporative cooler with rotating water on both sides is put forward. The experiment was carried out to explore the heat transfer performance of heat exchanger under three types of arrangement and the factors influence the performance were studied by orthogonal experiment. The study results show that when the hole is on the direction of air flow, the thermal performance of heat exchanger is optimal and the recommended rate of rotating water distribution installation 76 r/min. Heat exchange increases with the increase of water spray quantity, air velocity, cooling water flow rate, cooling water inlet temperature and decrease with increase of water temperature, air temperature cooling water inlet temperature has the most significant effect on the performance of heat transfer. And when the temperature increases form 35 ℃ to 39 ℃, the heat transfer improved 37.62%, Heat transfer in per unit area is about 1.14 kW. The heat exchanger can be installed in exhaust tunnel of underground stations, which can effectively solve the subway station cooling tower installation location problem.     

Convection Heat Transfer Coefficient Distribution Over the Single Rectangle Fin Surface

Rectangle fin is widely used in different kinds of heat exchangrs. Convection heat transfercoefficient distribution over the fin surface is one of the theorehcal problems in research on enhancement of heat transfer. In this paper, a tube with an attached rectangular fin is used for a model and thefin surface is divided into a network of nodes by the finite difference techinque. When the wind velocityis u= 4. 5 m/s. the temperature distribution of discretization is obtained by experimental measurement,then the convection heat transfer coefficient of all nodes are soved by using the methed of inverse heatconduction problem. Through checking with heat balance methed, the results show that the solution cancorrectly express the actual heat transfer situation.This result is useful to experimental research onenhancement of heat transfer for finned for heat exchangers.     

Experiment for Condensing Heat Transfer Performance in a New Type of Horizontal Three Dimensional Inner Microfin Tubes

A new type of three dimenstional inner microfin tube is devoloped. Under four different pressures and in the range of condensing mass velocities from 33 to 153 kg/m2 . s,and by the experimental study of the three kinds of tubes with different microfin parameters, the performances of the condensation heat transfer for R11 in the horizontal microfin tubes and obtained. The experiments show that the inner microfin tube is a hopeful and nighty effective condensing heat transfer enhancement tube.     

Experimental research for heat transfer coefficient of casting/mold interface with thermal-mechanical coupling effects using steady-state method

The variation tendency of interface heat transfer coefficient of A356/H13 steel with the thermal-mechanical coupling effects is investigated by using an experimental setup designed by the authors. The results show that,the steady-state heat flow method, which is realized by means of a multiple force amplifier consisting of a pulley force amplifier and a hydraulic force amplifier,can enable the study of the heat transfer coefficient of casting/mold interface with thermal-mechanical coupling effects; the bilateral heating experiments are superior to the unilateral ones; the increase of temperature or load causes the increase of interface heat transfer coefficient in the test range; moreover, the interface heat transfer coefficient at high temperature is more sensitive to temperature than at low temperature, the interface heat transfer coefficient of A356/H13 is nearly linear with the interface load.     

Analysis for Heat Transfer in Micro-annular Channel with Unsymmetrically Heated Walls in Slip Flow Regime

A theoretical analysis is presented for heat transfer in micro-annular channel with an adiabatic wall and a heated wall with uniform wall temperature in slip flow regime. The energy equations with the boundary conditions of temperature jump are solved for the hydrodynamical and thermal fully developed laminar flow of the incompressible fluid in this microchannel. The influences of the Kn number, the ratio of inner diameter to outer diameter on the heat transfer characteristics are discussed respectively. The results show that the Nusselt number in microchannel decreases with the increasing of Kn number comparing with that in macrochannel.