Augmentation of highly viscous laminar heat transfer inside tubes with constant wall temperature

W.J. Marner , Heat Transfer Research, Inc., Alhambra, California, USA A.E. Bergles Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0894-1777(89)90015-0, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions & Reprints Abstract An experimental investigation of enhanced tubeside flow and heat transfer under laminar flow conditions is reported. The three test sections in this study included a plain tube, an internally finned tube, and a tube with a twisted-tape insert, all with a nominal diameter of 25.4 mm and a length of 2.44 m. A highly viscous Newtonian liquid, Polybutene 20, was used as the test fluid. The heat transfer results were obtained in a horizontal test section with nearly constant wall temperature. Isothermal pressure drop, nonisothermal pressure drop, and heat transfer data were obtained over a wide range of the parameters: Reynolds number, 15.1575; Prandtl number, 12608130; Graetz number, 8686570; and bulk-towall viscosity ratio, 0.0046442.8. The effects of free, or natural, convection were negligible in this study. All parameters are evaluated at the arithmetic mean bulk temperature and are based on the inside envelope diameter. Isothermal friction factors for the internally finned tube and the tube with the twisted-tape insert are 1.7 and 3.4 times those of the plain tube for the range of Reynolds numbers tested, with the nonisothermal friction factors showing similar increases. Augmented heat transfer coefficients were above the plain tube values for both heating and cooling. The greatest improvement for heating was for the internally finned tube where Nusselt numbers ranged from 3 to 4 times the plain tube values at corresponding Graetz numbers. For cooling, the twisted-tape Nusselt numbers were 1.52.25 times the corresponding plain tube values. Tabulated values and empirical correlations are presented for all of the data obtained. Keywords

laminar flow; forced convection; augmentation; heat exchangers; measurement techniques

Heat transfer enhancement in circular tubes using helical swirl generator insert at the entrance

H. Gla, , D. Evinb, , a Frat University, Vocational High School, 23119, Elaz, Turkey b Frat University, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, 23119 Elaz, Turkey http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2006.12.010, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions & Reprints Abstract This paper presents an experimental study of heat transfer and friction characteristics in decaying turbulent swirl flow generated by a short helical tape placed at the entrance of the test section. In the experiments, total mass flux was varied from 160 kgm2s1 to 1628 kgm2s1 and the momentum ratio (M h / M T ) was varied from 0 to 8.6. The experiments were conducted for water flow rates in the range of . Three different helical tapes with helical angels of 30, 45 and 60 were used. Experimental results confirm that, the use of a helical tape inserted to the tube leads to a higher heat transfer rate than the non-swirling flow. The local heat transfer coefficients were found to be increasing to very high values along the downstream of the helical tape, and then decreasing with the distance (x / L ). The augmentation of heat transfer was found to be the function of the momentum ratio, M h / M T and Reynolds number. No pronounced effect of the number of the helical channels (N h ), and helical angle () on heat transfer was observed. It is found that using the helical tape can help to increase the heat transfer rate up to 20% depending on M h / M T and Re at constant pumping power. Enhancement efficiency increases with increasing momentum ratio and decreases with increasing Reynolds number.

Modeling of Heat Transfer Augmentation in a Circular Tube Fitted with Right-Left Helical Inserts in Laminar Flow Using CFD
Palani Sivashanmugam
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National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli-620015, India

Publication History: Published Online: 2008-05-26 Computational heat transfer flow modeling is one of the great challenges in the classical sciences. As with most problems in Engineering, the interest in the heat transfer augmentation is due to its extreme importance in various industrial applications. CFD simulation for the heat transfer augmentation in a circular tube fitted with right-left helical tape inserts in laminar flow conditions has been explained in this

paper using Fluent version 6.2.16. The data obtained by simulation are matching with the literature value for plain tube with the discrepancy of less than plus or minus 5% for Nusselt number and friction factor. Enhanced heat transfer with decreasing twist ratio was observed. Heat flux is more uniform all along the tube and decreases uniformly towards the center. Right-left movement of the flow as per direction twist was also observed from the velocity contour.

Keywords: heat transfer augmentation; right-left helical twist insert; twist ratio;CFD simulation; fluent

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Heat transfer enhancement; Circular tubes; Swirl flow; Helical tape Heat transfer correlation for thermally developing laminar flow in a smooth tube with a twisted-tape insert J.P. Du Plessis, , D.G. Krger Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0017-9310(87)90265-1, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions & Reprints Abstract A new method of correlating heat transfer characteristics is presented for the case of thermally developing laminar flow in a smooth tube with a twisted-tape insert. The tube is considered to be at a constant temperature axially and peripherally and the tape is fully adiabatic. The correlating method is based on numerical results for the case on an infinitely thin tape and the finite tape thickness is incorporated through the definition of effective flow parameters. A complete step-by-step procedure for the implementation of the final correlative equation is presented.