MED812 : Major Project Part 2

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF COMBINED CONVECTION

AND RADIATION HEAT TRANSFER FROM TUBE BANK

SHARAD PACHPUTE
(2009MET2431)
Mid-semester evaluation
2nd semester 2010-2011

20 February 2011
 1.Objectives and Deliverables
1.1 Objectives
Ø To carry out numerical study on flow past a single cylinder and tube
banks at different parameters.

Ø To understand fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics considering

radiative participating gases

Ø To obtain heat transfer correlations

1.2 Deliverables at the end of the project

Ø Numerical simulation of tube bank at different parameters

Ø Overall summation of result for cylinder and tube bank

Ø Developed correlation for single cylinder and tube bank

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 2 .Project plan and progress

Sr. Month
Work elements
No. Jun July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar April May

1 solving CFD tutorial and learning of ICEMCFD

2 Literature Review
Flow past single cylinder considering
3
radiative participating media
4 Development of grid model for tube bank
Heat transfer from tube bank considering
5 radiative participating media
Post processing of simulated models for tube
6 bank
7 Thesis writing

completed
work to be done

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 3. RESULT
3.1 Laminar flow- convective heat transfer from single cylinder
Convective Num Convective
Authors at Re=100 Num at Re=500
Mc Admas (analytical) 5.23 -
Kramers (analytical) 5.49 -
Eskert et.al (experimental) - -
Zhukaus correlation 5.18 10.778
P.C.Jain et. al (numerical ) 5.632 -
Present value (numerical) 5.1685 12.165
Case-I: Tw >Tin Case-II: Tin > Tw

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Case-I: (Tw >Tin) Tin=800k Tw=850,900,1000k , ∆T1 =50K , ∆T2=100 K, ∆T3=200K ,

Nucomb
Re ∆T Nuconv
α1 =1 α2 =10 α3 =30 α4 =60
∆T1 5.1685 12.134 8. - -
Re=100 ∆T2 - - - - -
∆T3 - - - - -
∆T1 9.1386 16.75 12.901 - -
Re=300 ∆T2 - - - - -
∆T3 - - - - -
∆T1 12.165 19.77 16.252 14.287 13.785
Re=500 ∆T2 12.205 20.702 17.151 - -
∆T3 12.285 22.356 17.675 - -
Case-II: (Tin > Tw ) Tw =800k Ti=850,900,1000k , ∆T1 =50K , ∆T2=100 K, ∆T3=200K
Combined Nusselt number (Nucomb )
Re ∆T Nuconv
α1 =1 α2 =10 α3 =30 α4 =60
∆T1 12.180 19.75 16.0157 - -
Re=500 ∆T2 12.203 20.47 16.985 - -
∆T3 12.287 22.456 17.675 - -

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3.2 Turbulent flow over cylinder: Unsteady SST K-ω model, Tin=800k Tw =850k,Pr=0.7

Circumferentially and time averaged Nuconv (Nux,t)

% difference
Tu Present K. Szczepanik Experimental Zhaukaus from
Re
% numerical et. al value of Correlatio experiment
value ( numerical) Scholton et.al. n al

7190 1.6 67.22 67.3 (steady K-ω) 49.5 42.1 35.79%

21580 0.46 112.97 148 (unsteady k-ω) 103.4 92.2 9.22 %

50350 0.36 177.5 191.1 (steady K-ω, T-lim) 155.1 146.165 14.41%

a) b) c)
Fig.3.2.Temprature contours a)Re=7190 b)Re=21580 ,b) Re=50350
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 3.3 Tube bank flow : convective heat transfer

Fig3.3,Temprature contours for tube bank flow Fig3.4,Velocity contours for tube bank flow

ØZhukauskas correlation for both staggered and aligned arrangement for number of row
0.25
N L ≥ 20  Pr 
Nu D = C Re mD ,max Pr 0.36  
 Prs  ρVmax D ST
Where C, m depends on Re D ,max = µ Vmax = V
( SD − D )
Ø If N L ≤ 2 0
NuD = C2 NuD Where C2=0.9 for NL=4
N L ≤ 20 N L ≥ 20

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3.5 Comparison between convective and combined Nu for tube bank

Fig.3.5. AW Convective Nu for row-1 Fig.3.6. AW Combined Nu for row-1

ØTube bank flow- inline arrangement: Tin >Tw Tw=800k Ti=850 , Pr=0.7

Nuconv
Combined Nucomb
Re ∆T Present Zhukauskas
α1 =1
value Correlation
Re=500 ∆T1 8.96104 9.171 14.547
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 4.Projections until work completion
4.1 Major tasks:
Ø Numerical simulation of tube bank simulation at different geometrical models

4.2 Major difficulties:

Ø Numerical simulation of combined convective and radiative heat transfer take
more time

4.3 Need for time beyond 15 May 2011:

Ø No time needed for completion of project beyond 15 May

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