The influence of viscous heating on the entransy in two-fluid heat exchangers

In the present work, water and olive oil are taken as working fluids to study the influence of viscous heating on the entransy dissipation caused by heat transfer in two-fluid heat exchangers. The results show that the influence of viscous heating on the entransy loss associated with heat transfer can not be neglected for the liquids having large dynamic viscosity. The viscous heating effect maintains the heat transfer ability of the working fluids, relatively reduces the entransy loss in heat exchangers; the viscous heating effect relatively augments the entropy generation due to heat transfer and the available energy destruction in heat exchangers. For the working fluid having large dynamic viscosity, the increasing rates of the entransy and entropy generation contributed by the viscous heating are even larger than those contributed by heat transfer, when the mass flow rate of working fluid reaches a certain value under the fixed heat transfer area condition. Thus, the entransy loss rate decreases and the growth rate of entropy generation increases as the mass flow rate of the working fluid increases. Under the same other conditions, the heat transfer entransy loss rate and entropy generation rate per unit heat transfer rate obtained when the fluid having a smaller heat capacity rate is cold fluid are less than those obtained when the fluid having a smaller heat capacity rate is hot fluid.

Thermal vibration phenomenon of single phase lagging heat conduction and its thermodynamic basis

In the present work it is shown that the single phase lagging heat conduction not only avoids the infinite heat propagation speed assumed by the conventional Fourier law, but also complies with Galilean principle of relativity. Therefore it is more advantageous than the Cattaneo-Vernotte model. Based on the single-phase-lagging heat conduction model, the condition for the occurrence of thermal vibration of heat conduction is established. In order to resolve the contradiction that the thermal vibration violates the second law of thermodynamics, the extended irreversible thermodynamics is improved and a generalized entropy definition is introduced. In the framework of the newly-developed extended irreversible thermodynamics the thermal vibration phenomena are consistent with the second law of thermodynamics.

Effect of electromagnetic boundary condition on dynamo actions

In this paper, based on the mean field dynamo theory, the influence of the electromagnetic boundary condition on the dynamo actions driven by the small scale turbulent flows in a cylindrical vessel is investigated by the integral equation approach. The numerical results show that the increase of the electrical conductivity or magnetic permeability of the walls of the cylindrical vessel can reduce the critical magnetic Reynolds number. Furthermore, the critical magnetic Reynolds number is more sensi- tive to the varying electrical conductivity of the end wall or magnetic permeability of the side wall. For the anisotropic dynamo which is the mean field model of the Karlsruhe experiment, when the relative electrical conductivity of the side wall or the rel- ative magnetic permeability of the end wall is less than some critical value, the m=l （m is the azimuthal wave number） mag- netic mode is the dominant mode, otherwise the m=0 mode predominates the excited magnetic field. Therefore, by changing the material of the walls of the cylindrical vessel, one can select the magnetic mode excited by the anisotropic dynamo.