The forced convective heat transfer at the surfaces of a cubic building in an atmospheric boundary layer is investigated with CFD. Heat transfer in the boundary layer is modelled using low-Reynolds number modelling (LRNM) and standard wall functions (SWFs). SWFs are found to overestimate the convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) significantly. Using a customised wall function (CWF) for te...

the mode of heat and mass transfer during baking of bakery products is an important factor determining the quality of the final product. the heating rate could alter the starch properties during gelatinization and affect the quality of products after baking and during aging. sangak is a kind of iranian flat bread baked on the hot pebble gravels. the aim of this study was to evaluate the impacts...

The effect of thermal and solutal buoyancy induced by a discrete source of heat and mass transfer in a square duct under the influence of magnetic field, especially at the turbulent regime for the first time is reported. Al2O3/water nanofluid is used with constant heat flux from three discrete heat sources. In the present study, the effects of Reynolds number (100 to 3000), particle volume frac...

The signijkance of the statistical character of wall-cooled packed-bed reactors was studied by measuring angular temperature variations, which result @om the random nature of the packing. These are neglected in present-day mathematical models designed to describe the reactor behavior. The amplitude of these variations was determined experimentally as a function of the mass flux and the position...

In this study, the thermal characteristics of turbulent nanofluid flow in a helical tube in the tube heat exchanger (HTTHE) were assessed numerically through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. The findings of both the turbulent models: realizable k-epsion (k-ε) and re-normalisation group (RNG) k-epsilon were compared. The temperature distribution contours show that realizable and RN...

The performance of the adsorption cooling system is assessed in terms of the heat transfer coefficients of adsorbent bed heat exchanger. These parameters in-turn determine the specific cooling capacity (SCC) and the coefficient of the performance (COP) of the adsorption cooling system. It was observed that the overall heat transfer coefficients of the heat exchanger have a direct linear relatio...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Heat-transfer enhancement in a uniformly heated slot mini-channel due to vortices shed from an adiabatic circular cylinder is numerically investigated. The effects of gap spacing between the cylinder and bottom wall on wall heat transfer and pressure drop are systemically studied. Numerical simulations are performed at Re = 100, 0.1 Pr 10 and a blockage rat...

Flow and thermal convection in heat exchangers can be affected by variations in viscosity. In circular pipes the significance of this effect was expressed by Sieder and Tate’s empirical formula. Similar correction can be derived for other heat transfer problems. Exact solutions for heat transfer during the non-isoviscous laminar flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquids in circular and flat d...