Laminar flow forced convection heat transfer behavior of a phase change material fluid in finned tubes

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 721-738

  Ravi, Gurunarayana ^a   Alvarado, Jorge L ^a   Marsh, Charles ^b,c   Kessler, David A ^d  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR TUBES; FINNED TUBE; FORCED CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER BEHAVIOR; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; LONGITUDINAL FINNED TUBE; PHASE CHANGE PROCESS; STEFAN NUMBERS;

BUOYANCY; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLUID DYNAMICS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PULSE CODE MODULATION;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 67651202100     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780902864672     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. J. C. Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed., vol. 1, pp. 440-441, Dover, New York, 1954.
2. R. K. Shah and A. L. London, Thermal Boundary Conditions and Some Solutions for Laminar Duct Flow Forced Convection, ASME J. of Heat Transfer, vol. 96, pp. 159-165, 1974.
3. C. Prakash and Y. D. Liu, Analysis of Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer in the Entrance Region of an Internally Finned Circular Duct, ASME J. of Heat Transfer, vol. 107, pp. 84-91, 1985.
4. I. J. Kettner, D. Degani, and C. Gutfinger, Numerical Study of Laminar Heat Transfer in Internally Finned Tubes, Numer. Heat Transfer A, vol. 20, pp. 159-180, 1991.
5. O. Zeitoun and A. S. Hegazy, Heat Transfer for Laminar Flow in Internally Finned Pipes with Different Fin Heights and Uniform Wall Temperature, Inter. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 40, pp. 253-259, 2004.
6. H. M. Soliman, The Effect of Fin Material on Laminar Heat Transfer Characteristics of Internally Finned Tubes, in J. M. Chenoweth, J. Kaeilis, J. W. Michel, and S. Shenkman (eds.), Advances in Enhanced Heat Transfer, book no. 100122, ASME, New York, 1979.
7. H. M. Soliman and A. Feingold, Analysis of Fully Developed Laminar Flow in Longitudinal Internally Finned Tubes, Chem. Eng. J., vol. 14, pp. 119-128, 1977.
8. H. M. Soliman, T. S. Chau, and A. C. Trupp, Analysis of Laminar Heat Transfer in Internally Finned Tubes with Uniform Outside Wall Temperature, ASME J. of Heat Transfer, vol. 102, pp. 598-604, 1980.
9. P. Charunyakorn, S. Sengupta, and S. K. Roy, Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Microencapsulated Phase Change Material Slurries: Flow in Circular Ducts, Inter. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 819-833, 1991.
10. Y. Zhang and A. Faghri, Analysis of Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Microencapsulated Phase Change Material Suspension, J. of Thermophys. and Heat Transfer, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 727-732, 1995.
11. E. L. Alisetti and S. K. Roy, Forced Convection Heat Transfer to Phase Change Materials Slurries in Circular Ducts, J. of Thermophys., vol. 14, pp. 115-118, 1999.
12. S. K. Roy and B. L. Avanic, Laminar Forced Convection Heat Transfer with Phase Change Material Emulsions, Inter. Comm. in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 895-904, 2001.
13. X. Hu and Y. Zhang, Novel Insight and Numerical Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer Enhancement with Microencapsulated Phase Change Material Slurries: Laminar Flow in a Circular Tube with Constant Heat Flux, Inter. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 45, pp. 3163-3172, 2002.
14. E. Choi, Y. I. Cho, and H. G. Lorsch, Forced Convection Heat Transfer with Phase-Change-Material Slurries: Turbulent Flow in a Circular Tube, Inter. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 207-215, 1994.
15. M. S. Goel, S. K. Roy, and S. Sengupta, Laminar Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Microcapsulated Phase Change Material Suspensions, Inter. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 593-604, 1994.
16. M. Lacroix, Study of the Heat Transfer Behaviour of a Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Unit with a Finned Tube, Inter. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 36, pp. 2083-2092, 1993.
17. L. G. Leal, On the Effective Conductivity of a Dilute Suspension of Spherical Drops in the Limit of Low Particle Peclet Number, Chem. Eng. Comm., vol. 1, pp. 21-31, 1973.
18. C. W. Sohn and M. M. Chen, Microconvective Thermal Conductivity in Disperse Two-Phase Mixture as Observed in a Laminar Flow, J. of Heat Transfer, vol. 106, pp. 539-542, 1976.
19. A. Nir and A. Acrivos, On the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Sheared Suspensions, J. of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 78, pp. 33, 1976.
20. V. Vand, Theory of Viscosity of Concentrated Suspensions, Nature, vol. 155, pp. 364-365, 1945.
21. FLUENT 6.3 User's Guide, Fluent, Inc., Lebanon, NH, 2006.
22. G. Ravi, Laminar Flow Forced Convection Heat Transfer Behavior of a Phase Change Material Fluid in Finned Tubes, M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2008.
23. P. Incropera and D. DeWitt, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2002.