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AdvHeatMass L 21 PDF
AdvHeatMass L 21 PDF
Module 3:
Convective heat and mass transfer
Lecture 21:
Convective Transport: Fluid Flow to a
Rotating Disk (in an infinite mass of
fluid)
NPTEL,IITKharagpur,Prof.SaikatChakraborty,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering
Consider the rotating disk in represented in cylindrical coordinates (r, , y) in Fig. 1 that rotates
with an angular velocity of . vr, v, vz are the fluid velocities along the r, , z, directions
respectively.
(at z=0)
vz
z
Fig. 1 Coordinates and velocity components for the rotating disk system.
Assumptions used for modelling the momentum transport in the fluid surrounding the
rotating disk
1. Disk is of infinite radius (no edge effects)
NPTEL,IITKharagpur,Prof.SaikatChakraborty,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering
(1)
1 P
+ r
+
+z r =
r
r
t
r
z
r
1
2
1 2
2
+
( rr ) + 2 2r 2 + 2r
r
r r r
z
r
(2)
Navier Stokes equations for momentum conservation (-component)
+ + + r + = 1 P
z
r
t
r
z
r
r
r
2
2
2 r
1
1
+
+
+
+
r
r r r r 2 2 r 2
z 2
( )
(3)
NPTEL,IITKharagpur,Prof.SaikatChakraborty,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering
z
z
1 P
+ r z +
+ z z =
r
z
t
r
z
1 z 1 2 z 2 z
+
+ 2
r
+ 2
2
z
r r r r
(4)
In the above equation P is the dynamic pressure.
P =
Dynamic
Pressure
p
Thermodynaic
Pressure
(5)
Hydrostatic
Pressure
(6)
NPTEL,IITKharagpur,Prof.SaikatChakraborty,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering
= r, r = 0, z = 0 on the surface of the disk and = 0, r = 0 far away from the surface
Hence
h = f = 0, g = at z = 0
f = g = 0 at z
J=z
, P = , = rG, r = rF , z = rH
2F + H ' = 0
(7)
F 2 G 2 + HF ' = F ''
(8)
2 FG + HG ' = G ''
(9)
(10)
With H = F = 0, G = 1 at J = 0
F = G = 0 at J
System (7)-(10) can be solved numerically to obtain F, H and G (See fig. 1).
Having H, ' can be obtained from (10) as
NPTEL,IITKharagpur,Prof.SaikatChakraborty,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering
1
P = P ( 0 ) + H ' H 2
2
(11)
1
H = 0.51023J 2 + J 3 0.10267 J 4 + .....
3
(12)
(13)
These expressions are useful, since the normal velocity vz is important for calculating the rate of
heat or mass transfer to the rotating disk. The fact that vz vz ( r ) has important consequences
for heat or mass flux uniformity along the disk surface (see fig. below)
NPTEL,IITKharagpur,Prof.SaikatChakraborty,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering
NPTEL,IITKharagpur,Prof.SaikatChakraborty,DepartmentofChemicalEngineering