Much attention has been given to the possibility of enhancing the heat transfer rate by superimposing pulsation on a mean flow inside a confined passageway. Industrial applications can be found in Stifling engines and reciprocating cycles, to name a few. A perusal of the relevant literature reveals that pulsating flows in a pipe and the attendant heat transfer have been the subject of several a...

Horizontal convection in a rectangular enclosure driven by a linear temperature profile along the bottom boundary is investigated numerically using a high-resolution spectralelement discretization in space and a third-order time integration scheme for velocity and temperature fields. A Boussinesq approximation is employed to model buoyancy. The emphasis of this study is on the scaling of Nussel...

Flow and heat transfer inside a nonisothermal, incompressible, thin-Ž lm squeezing bearing are analyzed. The governing equationshave been nondimensionalizedand reduced to simpler forms based on an order of magnitude analysis. Various analytical solutions for the temperature distribution and Nusselt number under dierent physical constraints are obtained. The in uence of the thermal squeezing pa...

A commonly cited advantage of pulse combustors is a high rate of heat transfer in the tail pipe. Past research on these rates of heat transfer is inconclusive regarding the amount of heat transfer enhancement and how various flow parameters affect this enhancement. This article reports an experimental heat transfer study in the tail pipe of a pulse combustor. The pulsation frequency, pulsation ...

A theoretical analysis is performed to study the flow and heat transfer characteristics of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid past a stretching surface with slip velocity at the surface and heat generation absorption . The transformed equations solved numerically using the Chebyshev spectral method. Numerical results for the velocity, the angular velocity, and the t...

This study has primarily aimed at the examination of the effect of flow rate, solid volume fraction and their interactions on the Nusselt number of Al2O3/water nanofluids. To investigate the main and interaction effects on the response, Response Surface Methodology (RSM) has been used based on the miscellaneous design. By using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) the signi...

Dynamic mesh methods and user defined functions are adopted and the shear stress transport k-ω turbulent model has been used in the numerical investigation of heat transfer performance of synthetic jet impingement onto dimple/protrusioned surface. The results show that the local time-averaged Nusselt number of the dimpled/protrusioned target surface tends to be much closer with that of flat cas...

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