Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of an Ultrasonic Molten Metal Treatment System

In piezoceramic ultrasonic devices,the piezoceramic stacks may fail permanently or function improperly if their working temperatures overstep the Curie temperature of the piezoceramic material.While the end of the horn usually serves near the melting point of the molten metal and is enclosed in an airtight chamber,so that it is difficult to experimentally measure the temperature of the transducer and its variation with time,which bring heavy difficulty to the design of the ultrasonic molten metal treatment system.To find a way out,conjugate heat transfer analysis of an ultrasonic molten metal treatment system is performed with coupled fluid and heat transfer finite element method.In modeling of the system,the RNG model and the SIMPLE algorithm are adopted for turbulence and nonlinear coupling between the momentum equation and the energy equation.Forced air cooling as well as natural air cooling is analyzed to compare the difference of temperature evolution.Numerical results show that,after about 350 s of working time,temperatures in the surface of the ceramic stacks in forced air cooling drop about 7 K compared with that in natural cooling.At 240 s,The molten metal surface emits heat radiation with a maximum rate of about 19 036 W/m2,while the heat insulation disc absorbs heat radiation at a maximum rate of about 7922 W/m2,which indicates the effectiveness of heat insulation of the asbestos pad.Transient heat transfer film coefficient and its distribution,which are difficult to be measured experimentally are also obtained through numerical simulation.At 240 s,the heat transfer film coefficient in the surface of the transducer ranges from–17.86 to 20.17 W/（m2？K）.Compared with the trial and error method based on the test,the proposed research provides a more effective way in the design and analysis of the temperature control of the molten metal treatment system.

Streamline upwind finite element method for conjugate heat transfer problems

This paper presents a combined finite element method for solving conjugate heat transfer problems where heat conduction in a solid is coupled with heat convection in viscous fluid flow. The streamline upwind finite element method is used for the analysis of thermal viscous flow in the fluid region, whereas the analysis of heat conduction in solid region is performed by the Galerkin method. The method uses the three-node triangular element with equal-order interpolation functions for all the variables of the velocity components, the pressure and the temperature. The main advantage of the proposed method is to consistently couple heat transfer along the fluid-solid interface. Three test cases, i.e. conjugate Couette flow problem in parallel plate channel, counter-flow in heat exchanger, and conjugate natural convection in a square cavity with a conducting wall, are selected to evaluate the efficiency of the present method.

Numerical Simulation and Control of Two-Phase Flow with Evaporation in a Vertical Tube Submitted to a Conjugate Heat Transfer

A better understanding of two-phase flows with evaporation allows leading to an optimal design of evaporators. For that purpose, numerical simulations are very useful. In this paper, a numerical study has been carried out in order to model and simulate the combination of a two-phase flow with evaporation in a vertical tube. The VOF （volume-of-fluid） multiphase flow method and a phase-change model for the mass transfer have been used. For an accurate modeling, the effect of axial conduction has been also taken into account using a conjugate heat transfer model. Since thermal oscillations are undesirable as they can lead to the failure of the tube, flow instabilities have also been analyzed, using FFT （fast Fourier transforms）, in order to comprehend their behavior and influence. A control study of the flow instabilities in the tube is also presented. For that purpose tube inlet temperature has been varied using a gain control parameter.

CONJUGATE MODEL FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER OF POROUS WALL IN THE HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS FLOW

Heat and mass transfer of a porous permeable wall in a high temperature gas dynamical flow is considered. Numerical simulation is conducted on the ground of the conjugate mathematical model which includes filtration and heat transfer equations in a porous body and boundary layer equations on its surface. Such an approach enables one to take into account complex interaction between heat and mass transfer in the gasdynamical flow and in the structure subjected to this flow. The main attention is given to the impact of the intraporous heat transfer intensity on the transpiration cooling efficiency.

Investigation of convection cooling guide vane with conjugate heat transfer method

This paper studied a certain blade with ten radial cooling holes which employed conjugate heat transfer method. The cooling air entered the cooling channel from the bottom of the blade and went out from the top, it was not ejected into the main flow. This paper used different numerical conditions including different turbulence models,turbulence intensities,thermal conduction coefficients and the influence on fluid property via temperature variation. The temperature distribution and pressure distribution of the blade were compared with experimental data. The results show that the numerical results using different turbulence models are almost identical to experimental data even little deviation occurs at shock wave location. The trends of temperature distribution under different numerical conditions are coincident to experimental data,especially Reynolds stress turbulence model. It can be concluded that anisotropic turbulence models can simulate the transition from laminar to turbulence,and the influence of turbulence intensity on laminar region and transition region is more than that on developed turbulent region.

Numerical simulation on conjugate heat transfer of turbine cascade

Numerical simulation on conjugate heat transfer of an internal cooled turbine vane was carried out. Numerical techniques employed included the third-order accuracy TVD scheme, multi-block structured grids and the technique of arbitrary curved mesh. Comparison between results of commercial CFD codes with several turbulence models and those of this code shows that it is incorrect of commercial CFD codes to predict the thermal boundary layer with traditional turbulence models, and that turbulence models considering transition lead to more accurate heat transfer in thermal boundary layer with some reliability and deficiency yet. The results of this code are close to those of CFX with transition model.

A new algorithm of global tightly-coupled transient heat transfer based on quasi-steady flow to the conjugate heat transfer problem

Concerning the specific demand on solving the long-term conjugate heat transfer （CHT） problem, a new algorithm of the global tightly-coupled transient heat transfer based on the quasi-steady flow field is further put forward. Compared to the traditional loosely-coupled algorithm, the computational efficiency is further improved with the greatly reduced update frequency of the flow field, and moreover the update step of the flow field can be reasonably determined by using the engineering empirical formula of the Nusselt number based on the changes of the inlet and outlet boundary conditions. Taking a duct heated by inner forced air flow heating process as an example, the comparing results to the tightly-coupled transient calculation by Fluent software shows that the new algorithm can significantly improve the computational efficiency with a reasonable accuracy on the transient temperature distribution, such as the computing time is reduced to 22,8% and 40% while the duct wall temperature deviation are 7% and 5% respectively using two flow update time step of 100 s and 50 s on the variable inlet-flow rate conditions.

Numerical Study of Conjugate Heat Transfer for Cooling the Circuit Board

In this paper, a 3D model of a flat circuit board with a heat generating electronic chip mounted on it has been studied numerically. The conjugate heat transfer including the conduction in the chip and convection with the surrounding fluid has been investigated numerically. Computational fluid dynamics using the finite volume method has been used for modeling the conjugate heat transfer through the chip and the circuit board. Conjugate heat transfer has broad applications in engineering and industrial applications in design of cooling off electronic components. Effects of various inlet velocities have been studied on the heat transfer variation and temperature of the circuit board. Numerical results show that the temperature of the chip reduces as the velocity of the inlet fluid flow increases.

Calculation of Mass Concrete Temperature and Creep Stress under the Influence of Local Air Heat Transfer

Temperature-induced cracking during the construction of mass concrete is a significant concern.Numerical simulations of concrete temperature have primarily assumed that the concrete is placed in an open environment.The problem of heat transfer between the air and concrete has been simplified to the concrete’s heat dissipation boundary.However,in the case of tubular concrete structures,where air inlet and outlet are relatively limited,the internal air temperature does not dissipate promptly to the external environment as it rises.To accurately simulate the temperature and creep stress in tubular concrete structures with enclosed air spaces during construction,we establish an air–concrete coupled heat transfer model according to the principles of conjugate heat transfer,and the accuracy of the model is verified through experiments.Furthermore,we conduct a case study to analyze the impact of airflow within the ship lock corridor on concrete temperature and creep stress.The results demonstrate that enhancing airflow within the corridor can significantly reduce the maximum concrete temperature.Compared with cases in which airflow within the corridor is neglected,the maximum concrete temperature and maximum tensile stress can be reduced by 12.5℃ and 0.7 MPa,respectively,under a wind speed of 4 m/s.The results of the traditional calculation method are relatively close to those obtained at a wind speed of 1 m/s.However,the temperature reduction process in the traditional method is faster,and the method yields greater tensile stress values for the corridor location.

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of the effects of cavity structures and heater thermal conductivity on nucleate boiling heat transfer

The boiling heat transfer technology with cavity surfaces can provide higher heat flux under lower wall superheat,which is of great significance for the cooling of electronic chips and microelectromechanical devices.In this paper,the boiling characteristics of the cavity surfaces are investigated based on the lattice Boltzmann(LB)method,focusing on the effects of cavity shapes,sizes,and heater thermal conductivity on the heat transfer performance.The results show that the triangular cavity has the best boiling performance since it has less residual vapor and higher bubble departure frequency than those of the trapezoidal and rectangular cavities.As the cavity size increases,the enhancement of heat transfer by the cavity mouth is suppressed by the heat accumulation effect at the heater bottom.The liquid rewetting process during bubble departure is the reason for the fluctuation of the space-averaged heat flux,and the heater thermal conductivity determines the fluctuation amplitude.The evaporation of liquid in the cavity with high thermal conductivity walls is more intense,resulting in shorter waiting time and higher bubble departure frequency.

Second Law Analysis of Forced Convective Cooling in a Channel with a Heated Wall Mounted Obstacle

The present work details a numerical simulation of forced convective laminar flow in a channel with a heated obstacle attached to one wall. The second law analysis is employed to investigate the distribution of entropy generation in the flow domain to demonstrate the rate of irreversibilities in thermal system. The conjugate problem including the convection heat transfer in the fluid flow and conduction one inside the obstacle is solved numerically to obtain the velocity and temperature fields in both gas and solid phases. To reach this goal, the set of governing equations including momentum and energy equations for the gas phase and conduction equation for the obstacle are solved by CFD technique to determine the hydrodynamic and thermal behaviors of the fluid flow around the obstacle and the temperature distribution in the solid element. An attempt is made to detail the local Nusselt number distribution and mean Nusselt number and also the local entropy generation distribution for the individual exposed obstacle faces. A good consistency is found between the present numerical results with experiment.

OpenMP-Based PCG Solver for Three-Dimensional Heat Equation

As one of the most important mathematics-physics equations, heat equation has been widely used in engineering area and computing science research. Large-scale heat problems are difficult to solve due to computational intractability. The parallelization of heat equation is available to improve the simulation model efficiency. In order to solve the three-dimensional heat problems more rapidly, the OpenMP was adopted to parallelize the preconditioned conjugate gradient （PCG） algorithm in this paper. A numerical experiment on the three-dimensional heat equation model was carried out on a computer with four cores. Based on the test results, it is found that the execution time of the original serial PCG program is about 1.71 to 2.81 times of the parallel PCG program executed with different number of threads. The experiment results also demonstrate the available performance of the parallel PCG algorithm based on OpenMP in terms of solution quality and computational performance.

枯竭油气藏储集库储热供暖耦合CO_(2)封存性能分析

利用枯竭油气藏储存热能并封存CO_(2),既可解决太阳能跨季节储热难题,又可扩大可再生能源供暖占比,同时还可提高CO_(2)地质封存的经济性。提出了枯竭油气藏储热供暖耦合CO_(2)封存的新方案,以CO_(2)作为循环工质,夏季吸收太阳热量储存于油气藏背斜构造中,而冬季取出供暖,建立了储释能过程的数学模型,重点分析了枯竭油气藏储能系统热工性能和CO_(2)封存性能。结果表明:(1)新方案储能系统热工性能优异。单井平均采热功率4808.95 kW,每个采暖季可有效利用的平均储热量49859.21 GJ,平均能量储存密度28984.23 kJ/m^(3)。(2)CO_(2)密度对温度敏感的特性降低了热损失,提高了系统效率。枯竭油气藏储能系统平均能量回收效率95.84%,平均热回收效率83.66%。(3)储能加速了CO_(2)溶解。储释能过程中周期性的注入和采出工作气导致气液界面反复膨胀收缩,增加了气水接触面积,提高了传质动力,加速了CO_(2)在水中的溶解。对比储能模式和仅CO_(2)封存模式,CO_(2)溶解比例增量由0.26%上升至2.22%。枯竭油气藏储热供暖耦合CO_(2)封存新方案既有优异的热工性能,又加速了CO_(2)的地质封存,是一种高值化的枯竭油气藏利用和可再生能源供暖方案,具有大规模推广应用的潜力。

水轮发电机顶罩内通风和温升共轭计算分析

本文针对某水电站水轮发电机顶罩内通风换热问题,开展了水轮发电机顶罩内通风和温升共轭计算数值研究,分析了顶罩内不同通风结构、风压等对顶罩内冷却换热的影响机理以及顶罩内的气体流通规律和换热机理,提出了改进顶罩内通风冷却效果的结构方案。研究表明:合理的设置顶罩侧面开孔数(减少孔数)和布置防尘罩与集电环间距(增大间距)有利于通风冷却,降低集电环和碳刷温度,保证机组安全运行。

热诱导卵白蛋白-白藜芦醇共价复合物的结构、功能及潜在致敏性

目的研究热诱导卵白蛋白(heat stressed ovalbumin,HOVA)-白藜芦醇(resveratrol,RES)共价复合物的结构、功能及潜在致敏性。方法首先将卵白蛋白(ovalbumin,OVA)在323 K条件下加热15 min,然后在碱性条件下与RES反应制备HOVA-RES共价复合物,利用十二烷基硫酸钠聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳测定HOVA-RES共价复合物的分子量,通过液相色谱-串联质谱法鉴定RES的结合位点,采用内源性荧光光谱、圆二色光谱、紫外吸收光谱解析RES引起的蛋白质构象变化,最后检测HOVA-RES共价复合物的抗氧化性、乳化性、热稳定性及潜在致敏性。结果碱性条件下HOVA与RES可以共价形式交联,结合位点为Lys187和Lys264。低比例RES复合时,HOVA螺旋结构增加,无规则卷曲减少,而高比例RES复合时,蛋白结构逐渐往无序方向发展。RES的共价修饰会影响蛋白质的功能特性,其中1,1-二苯基-2-三硝基苯肼(1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl,DPPH)自由基和2,2’-联氮-二(3-乙基-苯并噻唑啉-6-磺酸)二铵盐[2,2’-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)ammonium salt,ABTS]阳离子自由基清除率提升了约2倍,乳化活性由45.14 m^(2)/g增加到107.88 m^(2)/g,变性峰值温度上升了9.66℃。此外,随着RES复合比例的增加,HOVA-RES共价复合物的免疫球蛋白E(immunoglobulin E,IgE)结合能力呈现先下降后上升再下降的趋势,适量RES的共价复合能够显著降低OVA的潜在致敏性。结论HOVA-RES共价复合可以改变OVA的构象,改善其功能特性,并影响其潜在致敏性,这为OVA的开发利用提供了理论依据。

延伸冲击-扇形气膜孔复合结构耦合换热实验与数值研究

针对冲击-气膜复合冷却结构,采用实验与数值方法,对比了基于圆形气膜孔的传统冲击、延伸冲击、小距离冲击、基于扇形气膜孔的传统冲击、延伸冲击5种复合冷却系统的耦合换热和流动特性。采用红外热成像技术,获得了5种复合冷却结构在吹风比分别为0.6、1.0、1.5时外壁面的综合冷却有效度,并通过数值计算进一步揭示了内部冷却的流动和换热特征。研究结果表明:在不产生额外气动损失的前提下,延伸冲击孔结构可提升内部冷却的换热系数,进而小幅度提升壁面的综合冷却有效度,幅度为1.2%~4.6%,但随着冷气量的增大综合冷却有效度提升幅度有所减小;减小冲击距离能够提升内部冲击换热效果,但不会对综合冷却有效度产生明显影响;采用扇形气膜孔可大幅度提升外部气膜冷却性能,且提升幅度大于采用延伸冲击内部改进结构的。相较于传统的圆形气膜孔-冲击复合冷却结构,在相同冷气量条件下,基于扇形孔的延伸冲击改进方案可将壁面的面平均综合冷却有效度提高7.6%~8.5%,并将系统的流量系数提升30%以上。

基于Workbench的高压圆盘气体轴承共轭传热研究

高压圆盘气体轴承流道间隙内高速气流的对流换热与轴承圆盘内部热传导紧密耦合在一起,是一个典型的共轭传热问题。基于ANSYS Workbench工作平台的Fluid Flow(Fluent)模块对高压圆盘气体轴承进行共轭传热数值模拟,获得轴承流道间隙内的速度和压力分布、流体域与固体域的温度分布以及共轭传热时流固耦合壁面的热流密度分布,并将其与非共轭传热恒温壁面条件下的计算结果进行对比,得到高压圆盘气体轴承共轭传热的一些基本特性。结果表明:2种情况下的计算结果存在较大差异,非共轭传热恒温壁面条件下,间隙内的气体只吸热,流体域耦合壁面上的热流密度均为正值;而共轭传热条件下流体域耦合壁面热流密度存在正负值,间隙内气体的吸热和放热同时存在,显示出轴承圆盘的热传导与间隙内气体的对流换热具有复杂的共轭作用机制;相比之下,采用共轭传热模型可以得到更为符合实际的结果。研究结果为该类轴承的设计和制造提供了有益的指导。

Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of Film Cooling Flows

The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential of various grids to satisfactorily simulate the development of a cooling film, using a coupled computation that takes into account the full geometry. Detailed computations of a single row of 30 degrees round holes on a flat plate are presented for blowing ratios of 0.764, 1.01 and 1.54. The simulation results are compared well with experimental data. The two-layer model gave more accurate results but consumed much more computational time than the standard wall functions. The k-ε turbulence model with wall functions with appropriate values of y^＋ is suitable for practical use. The results show the importance of the conjugate calculation for accurately describing the influence of the heat transfer within the cooling film.

基于参数化建模的涡轮叶片气热耦合分析方法研究

气冷涡轮的出现使得航空发动机涡轮前温度可以进一步提高,促进了高性能航空发动机的飞速发展。然而随着复杂的内部冲击、扰流强化换热、对流气膜、致密气膜喷淋等冷却形式在涡轮部件上得到应用,冷气与燃气之间的相互作用也越发复杂。为对复杂冷却涡轮叶片的流动和传热耦合影响进行快速、精细化评估,本文建立了一种参数化建模方法,针对GE E3高压涡轮一级导向器进行高保真几何建模和气热耦合仿真。分析结果表明,该参数化建模方法可实现复杂气冷涡轮叶片的高保真几何建模,获得较高的气热耦合计算精度。同时通过详细分析获得了大量的涡轮叶片内部流动换热细节,可支撑高温涡轮叶片的精细化设计。

Retrofit design of composite cooling structure of a turbine blade by fluid networks and conjugate heat transfer methods

This article discusses the development of the numerical methods of gas flow coupled with heat transfer,and introduces the fluid net-works method for rapid prediction of the performance of the composite cooling structures in turbine blade.The reliability of these methods is verified by comparing experimental data.For a HPT rotor blade,a rapid prediction on the internal cooling structures is first made by using the fluid network analysis,then an assessment of aerodynamic and heat transfer characteristics is conducted.Based on the network analysis results,three ways to improve the design of the cooling structures are tested,i.e.,adjusting the cooling gas flow mass ratios for different inner cooling cavities,reducing the flow resistances of the channel turning structures,and improving the local internal cooling structure geometries with high temperature distribution.Through the verification of full three-dimensional gas/solid/coolant conjugate heat transfer calculation,we conclude that the modified design can make the overall temperature distribution more even by significantly reducing the highest temperature of the blade surface,and reasonably matching the parameters of different coolant inlets.The results show that the proposed calculation methods can remarkably reduce the design cycle of complex turbine blade cooling structure.