OPTIMAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR NUSSELT NUMBER AND FRICTION FACTOR

Experimental Investigation on Turbulent Heat Transfer, Nusselt Number and Friction Factor Characteristics of Square Ducts

This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation of heat transfer to the airflow in the square duct. The main purpose of this study is influence of square ducts on the convective heat transfer mechanism. Under this investigation friction factor and the Nusselt Number were calculated. The reason that square ducts increase the fluid flow turbulence near the wall and also increase ...

Nusselt number measurements for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

We present high-precision measurements of the Nusselt number N as a function of the Rayleigh number R for a cylindrical sample of water (Prandtl number sigma=4.4) of height L approximately equal to 50 cm and aspect ratio Gamma identical with D/L approximately equal to 1 (D is the diameter) for 3 x 10(9)< or =R< or =6 x 10(10). For R approximately 3 x 10(9) the data are consistent with existing ...

The variation of friction factor and colburn factor with different Reynolds number for different surface configuration

Compact heat exchangers (CHE) are very well known for their special design which includes high heat transfer coefficient and maximum temperature driving force between the hot and cold fluids. The accurate prediction of the thermal performance of a compact heat exchanger in the design stage is highly desirable for most aerospace applications. In the present study, the numerical investigation for...

a benchmarking approach to optimal asset allocation for insurers and pension funds

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...

Analytical Determination of the Nusselt Number in the Entrance Region