Simulation of Heat Transfer Characteristics in Channel with Square Rib Under Uniform and Turbulent Inlet Conditions

The detailed flow structures and closely-related heat transfer characteristics are investigated along the wall of a cooling channel with rib tabulator by computation.Three typical Reynolds numbers defined by the rib height are set at 200,500,1300,and the Mach numbers is 0.2,respectively.Two inlet boundary conditions,including the uniform and the fully-developed turbulent conditions,are used to study the turbulence effects on the characteristics of heat transfer in the vicinity of rib and wall.Results show that the local Nusselt number increases when the Reynolds number rises from 200 to 1300.At lower Reynolds number,the turbulent inlet condition generates more tangible heat transfer enhancement.At higher Reynolds number,however,the uniform inlet condition contributes more to the convective heat transfer effects.The paper discovers that the high Nusselt number has a consistent correlation with the positive and negative sign alteration of the shear layer on the wall,which satisfactorily explains the mechanisms of heat transfer enhancement due to the flow.

Physical Experiments to Investigate the Effects of Street Bottom Heating and Inflow Turbulence on Urban Street-Canyon Flow

The effects of street bottom heating and inflow turbulence on urbanstreet-canyon flow are experimentally investigated using a circulating water channel. Threeexperiments are carried out for a street canyon with a street aspect ratio of 1. Results from eachexperiment with bottom heating or inflow turbulence are compared with those without bottom heatingand appreciable inflow turbulence. It is demonstrated that street bottom heating or inflowturbulence increases the intensity of the canyon vortex. A possible explanation on how street bottomheating or inflow turbulence intensifies the canyon vortex is given from a fluid dynamicalviewpoint.

Development of inflow turbulence in microscale urban atmospheric environment

The sensitivity of turbulence-development to inflow turbulent statistics is investigated in microscale urban atmospheric environment flows. Large-eddy simulations （LESs） are carried out, in which the inflow error is brought in by transforming a fully developed turbulent field according to the Reynolds stress or energy spectra. A theoretical analysis is performed by neglecting the diffusion term in the budget equations of the turbulent kinetic energy. The results show that, （i） the error caused by the Reynolds stress decays until the fully developed level is achieved, and （ii） the error caused by the characteristic length scale increases immediately and then decreases. The streamwise changing rate of the inflow error weakens when the vertical coordinate increases. Further testing of the effects of the inflow inner- and outer-layer data shows that, the inflow inner- layer data dominate the near field, and the inflow outer-layer data dominate the far field.

Large eddy simulation of flow over a three-dimensional hill with different slope angles

Slope variation will significantly affect the characteristics of the wind field around a hill.This paper conducts a large-eddy simulation(LES)on an ideal 3D hill to study the impact of slope on wind field properties.Eight slopes ranging from 10°to 45°at 5°intervals are considered,which covers most conventional hill slopes.The inflow turbulence for the LES is generated by adopting a modified generation method that combines the equilibrium boundary conditions with the Fluent inherent vortex method to improve the simulation accuracy.The time-averaged flow field and the instantaneous vortex structure under the eight slopes are comparatively analyzed.The accuracy of the present method is verified by comparison with experimental data.The slope can affect both the mean and fluctuating wind flow fields around the 3D hill,especially on the hilltop and the leeward side,where a critical slope of 25°can be observed.The fluctuating wind speeds at the tops of steep hills(with slope angles beyond 25°)decrease with increasing slope,while the opposite phenomenon occurs on gentle hills.With increasing slope,the energy of the high-speed descending airflow is enhanced and pushes the separated flow closer to the hill surface,resulting in increased wind speed near the wall boundary on the leeward side and inhibiting the development of turbulence.The vortex shedding trajectory in the wake region becomes wider and longer,suppressing the growth of the mean wind near the wall boundary and enhancing the turbulence intensity.