Technical screening preparation:

CHT simulation with OpenFOAM

G.Pranay teja
Pranayteja.g347@gmail.com

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CONFIDENTIAL PRESENTATION
Case: conjugate heat transfer with radiation

Air flow out

Air flow in

Copper heat sink,

Heated from below

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Case: boundary conditions

Perfect adiabatic wall

• 𝑞′′ = 𝑞𝑟′ + 𝑞𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣
′ =0 Air flow out

Air flow in
@ 2,5 m/s, 293 K
Thin plastic casing
(1 mm, k = 5 W/mK):
• Convection negligble
Adiabatic wall • Radiation with 𝑇∞ = 293𝐾
of solid
Bottom: 100 W
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Case
Setup:

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 Analytical Results:
Δ𝑦
• 𝑅𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 = = 0.009948
𝑘1 𝐴1
1−𝜖1
• 𝑅1 = 𝑘 =0 (𝜖1 = 1)
1 𝐴1
1
• 𝑅12 = 𝐹12 𝐴1
= 25
1−𝜖2
• 𝑅2𝑟𝑎𝑑 = 𝜖2 𝐴2
= 27
Δ𝑦
• 𝑅2𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 = 𝑘 𝐴
=0.010264
2 2
𝑅2𝑟𝑎𝑑 + 𝑅2𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑
• 𝑅2 = 𝑅2𝑟𝑎𝑑 𝑅2𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑
= 0.01206

𝐸1 −𝐸2 𝜎(𝑇 4 1 −𝑇 4 2 )
• 𝑞𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 = 𝑞12 = 𝑞2 = =
𝑅𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 + 𝑅12 + 𝑅2 𝑅𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 + 𝑅12 + 𝑅2

= 181.7 𝑊
𝑚2

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Region Boundary Patches T U P P_rgh qr
fluidInlet fixedValue 293K fixedValue C fixedFluxPressure zeroGradient
(2. 5 0 0) A
Fluid fluidOutlet inletOutlet pressureInlet L fixedValue
OutletVelocity C 103800
U
fluidOpen zeroGradient pressureInlet L
OutletVelocity A
fluidWallCover zeroGradient noSlip T greyDiffusive
E Radiation
D fixedFluxPressure ViewFactor

fluidInterface compressible::turbulentTemperat noSlip

ureRadCoupledMixed
Boundary Patches T PP
solidHeatedWall externalWallHeatFluxTemperatur calculated
Solid e (mode power =100watts)
solidInsulatedWall zeroGradient
solidInterface compressible::turbulentTemperat
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Results
Assumption:
• Steady-state conditions
• Compressible Laminar flow
• Newtonian fluid
• Perfect gas
• Constant thermo-physical properties
• Emissivity of copper consider as 1 and
for thin plastic cover considered as 0.5.
• Uniform power supply of 100 W from
bottom surface of heat sink

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time T qr
Step (Radiative
Flux) Timestep=5
2 290-300 8.4
5 300-310 31
10 310-320 67
15 320-330 100
20 330-340 120

Timestep=10
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Perfect adiabatic wall

• From literature review, the perfect adiabatic wall is the sum of

the radiative flux and the convective flux is equals to 0 at the
boundary patch.
−𝑞𝑟𝑎𝑑 +𝑞𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣 =−𝑞𝑟𝑎𝑑 ± k(𝛻𝑇) = 0
• To implement this condition in the test case, we can give the
boundary condition of zeroGradient to fluidOpen boundary
patch in the 𝑞𝑟𝑎𝑑 file, so that we are preventing the radiative flux
variations through that patch.

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 Perfect adiabatic wall
• Similarly to make the convective flux variation to zero, we can give
the zeroGradient boundary condition to the temperature field T at
the same boundary patch, so that the both terms in the above
equation will be zero.
• However, we can also make an explicit new custom boundary
condition by making few changes in the existing boundary
conditions such as when we give zeroGradient condition to a field
patch it calls snGrad() function in the zeroGradientfvPatchField.H
file and assign zero to the field patch.

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 So similarly we make a new boundary condition file by
creating a new class which defines the previous equation
by making an implementation for the sum of the gradients
of qr field and temperature field on a boundary patch and by
calling the snGrad() function and assigning zero to the both
fields so that the total radiative and convective fluxes
becomes zero at that patch. However its not necessary for
this particular case.
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 G.Pranay teja
Pranayteja.g347@gmail.com

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