An experimental investigation of air flow and heat transfer in three types of converging-diverging tubes is presented in this study. They have the same diameter, rib height and pitch, but the different lengths of the ...An experimental investigation of air flow and heat transfer in three types of converging-diverging tubes is presented in this study. They have the same diameter, rib height and pitch, but the different lengths of the converging and diverging sections and their joint ways. The experimental results indicate that the heat transfer is enhanced when the length of converging section increases. A 12.4% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 6.8% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed linearly (DTL).Also a 5.27% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 46.5% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed convexly (DTC). The comparison results of Webb’s method show the DTL is better than OT in the range 1.5×10 4～4×10 4, but the DTC is not better than it.展开更多
The distributions of thermal resistance in viscous sublayer,buffer region and turbulent core region,local flow resistance and local heat transfer characteristics at different locations downstream of the twisted-tape e...The distributions of thermal resistance in viscous sublayer,buffer region and turbulent core region,local flow resistance and local heat transfer characteristics at different locations downstream of the twisted-tape element were numerically studied in a converging-diverging tube inserted with spaced twisted-tape element by analyzing the attenuation of self-sustaining swirl flow.The results showed that the local performance was poor as thermal resistance was too concentrated in its distribution for a particular region.The more uniform the distribution of thermal resistance,the better the local performance.The local performance reached its best when the fluid just left the spaced twisted-tape,in which the flow resistance dropped substantially but the enhancement of heat transfer was still significant.The self-sustaining flow was maintained at a long distance.The best performance was at the length of 36.85 times the diameter,increasing by 6.8% compared with a converging-diverging tube.展开更多
文摘An experimental investigation of air flow and heat transfer in three types of converging-diverging tubes is presented in this study. They have the same diameter, rib height and pitch, but the different lengths of the converging and diverging sections and their joint ways. The experimental results indicate that the heat transfer is enhanced when the length of converging section increases. A 12.4% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 6.8% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed linearly (DTL).Also a 5.27% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 46.5% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed convexly (DTC). The comparison results of Webb’s method show the DTL is better than OT in the range 1.5×10 4～4×10 4, but the DTC is not better than it.
文摘The distributions of thermal resistance in viscous sublayer,buffer region and turbulent core region,local flow resistance and local heat transfer characteristics at different locations downstream of the twisted-tape element were numerically studied in a converging-diverging tube inserted with spaced twisted-tape element by analyzing the attenuation of self-sustaining swirl flow.The results showed that the local performance was poor as thermal resistance was too concentrated in its distribution for a particular region.The more uniform the distribution of thermal resistance,the better the local performance.The local performance reached its best when the fluid just left the spaced twisted-tape,in which the flow resistance dropped substantially but the enhancement of heat transfer was still significant.The self-sustaining flow was maintained at a long distance.The best performance was at the length of 36.85 times the diameter,increasing by 6.8% compared with a converging-diverging tube.
