Improved thermal performance of a hydronic radiant panel heating system by the optimization of tube shapes

The thermal performance enhancement of the hydronic radiant floor heating system by tube shape refinements is investigated in this paper.Both analytical and detailed numerical modelings are carried out to predict the performance of the radiant system.While the simple analytical model briefly investigates the possibility of the effect of the tube shape improvement with the parametric analysis,the commercial computational fluid dynamics(CFD) code(Ansys/CFX) is used to perform the detailed 3D analysis under different tube shape conditions.The fin thickness,the number of fins,and the tube thermal conductivity turn out to have significant effects on the radiant system performance.The potential energy saving impacts of the tube shape refinements are also discussed.The tube shape improvement turns out to increase the floor surface temperature and to decrease the hot water temperature drop across the system,resulting in heating energy savings.

Effects of tube cross-sectional shapes on flow pattern, liquid film and heat transfer of n-pentane across tube bundles

The heat transfer of hydrocarbon refrigerant across tube bundles have been widely used in refrigeration.Three-dimensional simulation model using volume of fluid(VOF) was presented to study the effects of tube shapes on flow pattern, film thickness and heat transfer of n-pentane across tube bundles, including circle, ellipse-shaped, egg-shaped and cam-shaped tube bundles. Simulation results agree well with experimental data in the literature. The liquid film thickness of sheet flow and heat transfer for different tube shapes were obtained numerically. The flow pattern transition occurs lower vapor quality for ellipse-shaped tube than other tube shapes. For sheet flow, the liquid film on circle tube and ellipseshaped tube is symmetrically distributed along the circumferential direction. However, the liquid film on egg-shaped tube at circumferential angles(θ) = 15°–60° is thicker than θ = 135°–165°. The liquid film on cam tube at θ = 15°–60° is slightly thinner than θ = 135°–165°. The liquid film thickness varies from thinner to thicker for ellipse-shaped, cam-shaped, egg-shape and circle within θ = 15°–60°. The effect of tube shape is insignificant on thin liquid film thickness. Ellipse-shaped tube has largest heat transfer coefficient for sheet flow. In practical engineering, the tube shape could be designed as ellipse to promote heat transfer.

Theory and Experimental Verification on Valveless Piezoelectric Pump with Multistage Y-shape Treelike Bifurcate Tubes

Among most traditional piezo water cooling systems, piezoelectric valve pumps are adopted as their driving sources. The valves in these pumps induce problems of shock and vibration and also make their structure complicated, which is uneasy to minimize and reduce their reliability and applicability of the whole system. In order to avoid these problems caused by valve structure, a novel valveless piezoelectric pump is developed, which integrates both functions of transforming and cooling. The pump’s Y-shape tree-like construction not only increases the efficiency of cooling but also the system reliability and applicability. Firstly, a multistage Y-shape treelike bifurcate tube is proposed, then a valveless piezoelectric pump with multistage Y-shape treelike bifurcate tubes is designed and its working principle is analyzed. Then, the theoretical analysis of flow resistance characteristics and the flow rate of the valveless piezoelectric pump are performed. Meanwhile, commercial software CFX is employed to perform the numerical simulation for the pump. Finally, this valveless piezoelectric pump is fabricated, the relationship between the flow rates and driving frequency, as well as the relationship between the back pressure and the driving frequency are experimentally investigated. The experimental results show that the maximum flow rate is 35.6 mL/min under 100 V peak-to-peak voltage (10.3 Hz) power supply, and the maximum back pressure is 55 mm H2O under 100 V (9 Hz) power supply, which validates the feasibility of the valveless piezoelectric pump with multistage Y-shape treelike bifurcate tubes. The proposed research provides certain references for the design of valveless piezoelectric pump and improves the reliability of piezo water cooling systems.

Analysis of the Flow Rate Characteristics of Valveless Piezoelectric Pump with Fractal-like Y-shape Branching Tubes

Microchannel heat sink with high heat transfer coefficients has been extensively investigated due to its wide application prospective in electronic cooling. However, this cooling system requires a separate pump to drive the fluid transfer, which is uneasy to minimize and reduces their reliability and applicability of the whole system. In order to avoid these problems, valveless piezoelectric pump with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes is proposed. Fractal-like Y-shape branching tube used in microchannel heat sinks is exploited as no-moving-part valve of the valveless piezoelectric pump. In order to obtain flow characteristics of the pump, the relationship between tube structure and flow rate of the pump is studied. Specifically, the flow resistances of fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes and flow rate of the pump are analyzed by using fractal theory. Then, finite element software is employed to simulate the flow field of the tube, and the relationships between pressure drop and flow rate along merging and dividing flows are obtained. Finally, valveless piezoelectric pumps with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes with different fractal dimensions of diameter distribution are fabricated, and flow rate experiment is conducted. The experimental results show that the flow rate of the pump increases with the rise of fractal dimension of the tube diameter. When fractal dimension is 3, the maximum flow rate of the valveless pump is 29.16 mL/min under 100 V peak to peak （13 Hz） power supply, which reveals the relationship between flow rate and fractal dimensions of tube diameter distribution. This paper investigates the flow characteristics of valveless piezoelectric pump with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes, which provides certain references for valveless piezoelectric pump with fractal-like Y-shape branching tubes in application on electronic chip cooling.

Non-steady FE analysis on porthole dies extrusion of aluminum harmonica-shaped tube

According to the rigid-viscoplasticity finite element method,the porthole die extrusion process of an aluminum harmonica-shaped tube was successfully simulated based on software Deform-3D. The distribution of stress field,effective strain field,velocity field and temperature field during the extrusion process were discussed and the metal flow in welding extrusion was analyzed. The simulation results show that the material flow velocities in the bearing exit are non-uniform with the originally designed die and the forepart of the profile is not neat or even. Aiming at solving this problem,the modification method of die structure was improved. The result shows that the uniform material flow velocities in the die exit and a perfect extruded are obtained by modification bearing length.

Deformation Mechanism of Hot Spinning of NiTi Shape Memory Alloy Tube Based on FEM

As a successively and locally plastic deformation process, ball spinning is applied to manufacturing thin-walled Nickel-Titanium shape memory alloy （NiTi SMA） tube at high temperature. NiTi SMA tube blank belongs to the as-cast state which consists of a lot of dendritic grains and a few equiaxed grains. The compression tests of NiTi SMA were carried out at various strain rates at high temperature in order to obtain the constitutive model of NiTi SMA. Because NiTi SMA is sensitive to the strain rates at high temperature, rigid-viscoplastic finite element method （FEM） is used to simulate ball spinning of thin-walled NiTi SMA tube in order to analyze the deformation behavior of ball spinning of NiTi SMA tube. Stress fields, strain fields as well as velocity fields is obtained by means of rigid-viscoplastic FEM, which lays the profound foundations for studying the metal flow rule in ball spinning and forming perfect spun NiTi SMA tube.

Fracture Behavior of TiNi Based Shape Memory Alloy Cold-rolled Tube

The microstructures and interracial characteristics of matrices at the inwalls and the out-walls of the cold-rolled tube with different amounts of deformation were investigated by the scanning electronic microscope （SEM）, the optical microscope （OM）, and the transmission electronic microscope （TEM） techniques. It was observed that as the amount of deformation increases, the flaws nucleate at the out-walls of the cold rolled tube, the stress-induced martensites change from （111 ） type Ⅰ twins to （011） type Ⅱ twins and then to （100） compound twins, nanocrystals and bulk amorphisation happen, the high density dislocation causes stress concentration at the out-walls of the Ti50Ni50 cold-rolled tube, and then precipitates its fracture, and the Ti2Ni particles strengthen the grain boundaries and curb the dislocation movements during plastic deformation. The inhomogeneity level of the grains in the Ti50Ni50 alloy plays an important role on the fracture of the Ti50Ni50 cold rolled tube.

L形冷弯薄壁型钢组合钢管混凝土柱轴压性能

为解决异形钢管混凝土柱阴角对其承载力的影响,提出了用1个冷弯薄壁方钢管和2个U形钢管焊接成L形钢管,内填充混凝土形成L形冷弯薄壁型钢组合钢管混凝土柱形式。设计了5组共10根试件的轴压试验,并开展了有限元参数分析,研究了钢管厚度、U形管外伸长度和钢材强度等参数对构件承载力和延性等力学性能的影响。结果表明:该类试件的主要破坏形态为中上部局部鼓曲破坏,适量增大U形管外伸长度可以提高承载力,但增大到一定程度之后易发生弯扭破坏;承载力和延性随着钢管厚度和钢材强度增大而增加;混凝土强度对构件的初始刚度和峰值荷载的影响都很小,但对曲线下降段的影响较大;试件端部和中部截面阴角处的混凝土应力值比各边中部更大,说明采用U形钢管与方钢管组合的方式改善了阴角处钢管对混凝土约束普遍较弱的问题。基于“统一理论”,给出了两种承载力建议计算公式,与试验结果吻合较好,两种计算方法在0.44~1.94的约束效应系数范围内具有良好的适用性。

Combined stress waves with phase transition in thin-walled tubes

The incremental constitutive relation and governing equations with combined stresses for phase transition wave propagation in a thin-walled tube are established based on the phase transition criterion considering both the hydrostatic pressure and the deviatoric stress. It is found that the centers of the initial and subsequent phase transition ellipses are shifted along the sigma-axis in the sigma tau-plane due to the tension-compression asymmetry induced by the hydrostatic pressure. The wave solution offers the 'fast' and 'slow' phase transition waves under combined longitudinal and torsional stresses in the phase transition region. The results show some new stress paths and wave structures in a thin-walled tube with phase transition, differing from those of conventional elastic-plastic materials.

Y型管式油水分离结构分离特性仿真分析

管式油水分离技术具有占地面积小、分离效率高、成本低等优点,基于管式油水分离原理,设计一种Y型管式油水分离结构,利用Fluent数值模拟软件,采用标准k-ε湍流模型和Mixture多相流模型,对Y型管内部流场特性以及外部参数对分离效率的影响进行了研究。结果表明,Y型管对流体扰动小,内部流场特性稳定不易产生涡流,能够实现油水分离,支管与主管交汇处存在油水分离现象;油水分离效率随着油滴粒径的增大而逐渐提高,油滴粒径越大越利于油相上浮聚集在Y型管上层,能有效提高油水分离效率;入口速度对油水分离效果的影响很大,速度越大,油相上浮时间越短,Y型管的分离效率越低;分离效率随支管分流比的增大而增大,当入口速度为0.5 m/s时,分流比超过0.4后,分离效率不再增加。研究结果为油水分离提供了新思路,可为Y型管的设计提供理论参考。

Cognition,Application and Discussion on Shaped Charge Hydraulic Smooth Blasting Technology

In the past,the main method of tunnel excavation in China was drilling and blasting,but the biggest shortcoming of the traditional drilling and blasting method is that it is easy to cause serious overexcavation and underexcavation.At the same time,the operation cycle time of this method is long,which leads to a serious waste of resources.Not only that,a large number of toxic gases and dust produced after blasting also do harm to the health of construction workers.So this is an urgent need for a new construction technology to solve this worldwide problem.In this situation,the leading experts in the field of tunnel,"The survey and design master of China"Shi Yuxin,Liu Pei,and well-known expert in explosion field,yan-sheng ding,professor Chen Chengguang and Gu Yicheng,the experts group,cooperate with The Fifth Branch of China Railway 18th Bureau in northwest project management department,developed a new technology.This technology has passed the appraisal of scientific and technological achievements organized by Tianjin Science and Technology Commission,which is shaped hydraulic smooth blasting technology.The comprehensive evaluation of the technology is"international leading"level.This paper is mainly aimed at the drawbacks of drilling and blasting construction,combined with the author's cognition and discussion on the introduction of the new technology of cumulative hydraulic blasting and the practical application effect in the tunnel excavation process of the fourth company of China Railway 14th Bureau Group in the second division of the 9th bid section of Zhangjihuai Railway in Huainan Province.

框架-分布双段摇摆芯筒-核心筒体系调谐减震机理及性能研究

为了减小传统框架-核心筒(FCT)结构体系筒体围合面积,进一步提高结构的经济性,提出框架-分布芯筒-核心筒(FDCT)高层结构体系;将分布芯筒与摇摆体系相结合形成框架-分布摇摆芯筒-核心筒(FDRCT)结构体系,旨在控制结构的变形模式。为了降低高阶振型对高层结构的不利影响,进一步提出具有调谐减震性能的框架-分布双段摇摆芯筒-核心筒(FDBRCT)结构体系。建立各结构的动力学模型和方程,并进行平稳随机振动分析,初步证明FDBRCT结构可以更为有效地降低结构的动力响应。对比FCT,FDCT,FDRCT以及FDBRCT结构的时程分析结果,FDCT结构由于刚度被削弱导致抗震能力下降,FDRCT改善了结构变形的不均匀程度,上部楼层加速度有所减小但顶层位移会增大。相较于FDRCT结构,FDBRCT结构的层间位移角最大值明显减小,变形更加均匀,适当降低了顶层位移响应以及内力需求,具备调谐能力的分布双段摇摆芯筒使FDBRCT结构在提高经济性的同时兼具更为优越的抗震、减震性能。

L形钢管混凝土柱-钢梁节点的抗震性能试验研究及有限元分析

为了研究异形钢管混凝土节点的抗震性能,按照1∶2缩尺比例制作了6根L形钢管混凝土柱-钢梁节点试件。通过低周往复试验,探讨了轴压比、梁柱线刚度比和是否带楼板等因素对节点抗震性能的影响。试验结果表明:试件滞回曲线饱满,试件展现出较好的抗震性能;随着梁柱线刚度比的增大,试件的强度、刚度和延性均有所提高;随着轴压比的增大,其耗能能力也增加,但延性有所下降;此外,混凝土楼板的存在对节点承载力的影响较大。利用ABAQUS有限元软件建立有限元模型进行仿真模拟分析,结果显示,有限元计算结果与试验结果符合度较好,从而验证了有限元建模的准确性,为参数分析提供依据。

不同螺旋缠绕异形管换热器壳程性能数值研究

缠绕管的形状对螺旋缠绕管换热器的传热能力有重要影响,本文建立了具有不同截面形状的螺旋缠绕管换热器模型,数值研究了八种不同截面形状的缠绕管对螺旋缠绕管换热器壳程流动与传热性能的影响。相比于传统圆管,三叶管和水滴管对壳程流体造成的扰动较大,增强了螺旋缠绕管换热器的综合换热性能,而三叶管则具有最大换热能力。进一步分析了不同冲刷方式对螺旋三叶管换热器和螺旋水滴管换热器壳程性能的影响,结果表明:在相同的进口工况下,螺旋三叶管换热器壳程努塞尔数相比于传统圆管提高了11.8%~15.5%,阻力系数增大了41.9%~49.6%;螺旋水滴管换热器壳程努塞尔数相比于传统圆管提高了2.8%~4.3%,阻力系数增大了3.2%~6.8%;在雷诺数为2 603~5 206的工况条件下,管截面与流动方向夹角为0°的三叶管换热器综合换热性能最好,而管截面与流动方向呈逆流形式的水滴管换热器综合换热性能优于顺流形式。

无量纲力对超临界氢气在U形管内传热的影响

针对发动机换热器的冷却问题,开展了超临界压力下氢气在竖直管和U形管内流动传热特性研究。采用数值方法研究了压力和质量流率对管道换热的影响,从而得到换热规律,深入讨论弯管段的换热机理,分析了无量纲力对换热的影响。结果表明:压力贴近拟临界或质量流率增大均会增加对流换热系数,产生换热强化;U形管的弯管段可有效强化换热,在θ=90°附近达到峰值;入口直管段存在浮升力作用,但当压力高于2.0 MPa时,由于密度差影响,浮升力作用在弯管段后可忽略;由二次流引起的迪恩涡是强化弯管段换热性能的主要因素,其中对入口段的影响显著弱于出口段。

双叉戟状空间自锁吸能系统设计及吸能性能研究

自锁吸能系统可无需外加约束而避免元件在冲击荷载下的横向飞溅,具有广阔的应用前景。然而,已有自锁吸能系统大都只在特定方向具有自锁稳定性,构型复杂且造价昂贵,或截面形状特殊,不便拆装,制约了应用和推广。为此,该文提出了一种新型的多向自锁能量吸收系统,由具有双叉戟状横截面的薄壁管组成,拆装方式灵活便捷。当系统受冲击时,管件的管槽限制了相邻主体管的位移,使管件系统在空间多个方向的冲击载荷下,均可实现自锁,并且充分变形,稳定吸能。通过有限元分析,系统考察了双叉戟单管的几何参数效应以及阵列轮廓尺寸对系统吸能特性的影响。相较于已有的自锁系统,该文发展的双叉戟自锁吸能系统具有更优异的吸能特性。

工字形CFRP-高强圆钢管高强混凝土中长柱偏心受压性能研究

目的为避免材料浪费,减小构件截面尺寸,将CFRP型材与高强圆钢管高强混凝土进行结合,形成工字形CFRP型材-高强圆钢管高强混凝土构件,并研究其在偏心受压状态下的力学性能。方法采用试验和有限元相结合的方法对组合构件的工作机理和破坏模态进行研究,选取典型构件进行受力全过程以及变参数分析。结果典型构件荷载-挠度曲线可分为弹性段、弹塑性段、塑性强化段和下降段;CFRP型材在弹塑性段后承担荷载比例逐渐增加且能够与钢管协同工作,对混凝土形成双重约束,提高构件的极限承载力;长细比、偏心率对构件的极限承载力、初始刚度、延性影响较为明显,钢材屈服强度、混凝土强度、含钢率、CFRP配置率影响较小。结论试件受力过程中变形较为稳定,延性较好,试件的变形符合平截面假定。

多因素影响下的S型管道冲刷腐蚀速率分析

S型管道应用于输运过程中的复杂地形,在上下游弯头处,会形成不同程度的冲刷腐蚀,造成安全隐患。为分析其腐蚀影响因素,建立S型管道腐蚀模型,采用ANSYS的Workbench平台搭建Fluent模块对不同影响因素下的腐蚀模型进行研究,创建数据传输,进而研究流体在流入弯管后各因素与冲蚀速率的关系。结果表明,S型管道冲刷腐蚀受到多因素的影响,尤其是下游弯头处的冲刷腐蚀更为明显。适当减小颗粒物直径、颗粒物质量流量,增大管径和弯径比可以减缓腐蚀及减小腐蚀区域。研究可为管道安全稳定运行提供理论依据。

T型管内高压成形模拟仿真及试验研究

针对T型管内高压成形时支管高度有限和支管顶部壁厚过度减薄的问题,以规格为240 mm×Φ50 mm×1.25 mm的不锈钢管为研究对象,以总轴向进给量和最大内压力为约束,开展了有限元模拟与试验研究,获得轴向进给量和内压力的加载方式以及润滑方式对T型管支管成形高度和最大壁厚减薄率的影响规律。结果表明:当内压力为60 MPa,轴向进给量为50 mm时,内压采用先快后慢的加载方式,轴向进给量采用先慢后快的加载方式可获得成形高度和减薄率较为理想的T型管;差异化润滑可有效改善过渡圆角处材料堆积现象,有利于提高支管成形高度,降低支管顶部壁厚减薄率。