A nanofluid is the suspension of nanoparticles in a base fluid. Nanofluids are promising for heat transfer enhancement due to their high thermal conductivity. Presently, discrepancy exists in nanofluid thermal conductivity data in the literature, and enhancement mechanisms have not been fully understood yet. In the first part of this study, a literature review of nanofluid thermal conductivity is performed. Experimental studies are discussed through the effects of some parameters such as particle volume fraction, particle size, and temperature on conductivity. Enhancement mechanisms of conductivity are summarized, theoretical models are explained, model predictions are compared with experimental data, and discrepancies are indicated. Nanofluid forced convection research is important for practical application of nanofluids. Recent experiments showed that nanofluid heat transfer enhancement exceeds the associated thermal conductivity enhancement, which might be explained by thermal dispersion, which occurs due to random motion of nanoparticles. In the second part of the study, to examine the validity of a thermal dispersion model, hydrodynamically developed, thermally developing laminar Al2O3/water nanofluid flow inside a circular tube under constant wall temperature and heat flux boundary conditions is analyzed by using finite difference method with Alternating Direction Implicit Scheme. Numerical results are compared with experimental and numerical data in the literature and good agreement is observed especially with experimental data, which indicates the validity of the thermal dispersion model for explaining nanofluid heat transfer. Additionally, a theoretical analysis is performed, which shows that usage of classical correlations for heat transfer analysis of nanofluids is not valid.

This thesis investigates the refrigerant (R-134a) flow in a minitube experimentally. The small scale heat transfer is a relatively new research area and has been in favor since the end of 1970&rsquo / s. Refrigerant flow in mini- and microscale media is a potential enhancement factor for refrigeration technology in the future. For the forthcoming developments and progresses, experimental studies are invaluable in terms of having an insight and contributing to the establishment of infrastructure in the field in addition to leading the numerical and theoretical approaches. The studies in the literature show that low mass flow rate and constant wall temperature approach in minitubes and minichannels were not among the main areas of interest. Therefore, an experimental set-up was prepared in order to perform experiments of two-phase refrigerant flow in a 1.65 mm diameter copper minitube with the constant wall temperature approach. The design, preparation, and modifications of the experimental set-up are explained in this thesis. Two-phase flow and quality arrangements were done by pre-heating the refrigerant at saturation pressure and the constant wall temperature was achieved by a secondary cycle with water and ethylene glycol mixture as the working fluid. The heat transfer coefficient and the pressure drop for the two-phase flow with varying quality values and saturation temperatures of the refrigerant were calculated and compared with the results available in literature.

In this thesis, a Thermal Model Tool (TMT) is developed for standard Avionic Transport Rack (ATR) chassis and thermal design of a standard ATR chassis is done using developed TMT. This ATR chassis is a Digital Moving Map (DMAP) of a helicopter and the tool is used to determine the cooling channel details of DMAP. TMT decreases design process steps and eliminates the complexity of the design. Experimental studies are conducted on one of the existing chassis produced in Aselsan Inc. for different operating conditions. There are two different operating conditions for the chassis as 25 &ordm / C and 55 &ordm / C, which are given, in military standard MIL-STD-810F. Critical temperature values are measured, which are used in analytical calculations, and results are represented. At the first step, outputs of the experimental studies are used in analytical calculation in order to develop TMT. Secondly, heat dissipation rate of two different chassis are v calculated easily by using the TMT, and without making effort for CFD analysis, the necessary number of plate fins of the chassis are assessed considering given geometrical constraints and heat loads. Finally, cooling channels are generated using the results of TMT. In the next step the chassis, which are designed using the results of TMT, are analyzed numerically by using Icepak Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool and results of TMT are verified. The cooling capacities of the decided plate fins, which are obtained by TMT, are checked whether or not the required heat dissipation rates are ensured. Consequently, TMT is tested under for two different operating conditions on two different chassis. Analytical and numerical studies for both conditions are compared and discussed in detail. Comparisons show that, developed TMT results are meaningful and close to numerical results, therefore TMT can be used in forthcoming ATR chassis designs.

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<p>Finite-volume methods have been used for modeling of fluidflows involved in forced convection electrochemical coating androtating spray painting systems. Electrodeposition on a singlecircular cylinder under forced convection for Reynolds numbers10 and 200 was simulated. Comparisons with earlier numericaland theoretical results are presented and it is shown that theunsteady wake that appears for Reynolds numbers greater than 50affects the mass transfer from the surface of the cylinder onlyin an average sense. This result is compared with a heattransfer case, where unsteadiness is much more manifest. Theeffect of application of circulation movement around thecylinder surface was considered, showing that the use ofoptimal values for circulation can create a recirculation zonearound the cylinder and result in a remarkable improvement ofthe deposit uniformity. The magnetoelectrolysis researchdiscipline is presented with focus on magnetic fields uses onmass transfer processes. A classification of the governingdimensionless parameters that control the phenomena isproposed. Application of magnetoelectrolysis on electroplatingprocesses is done for the first time. It is found that the useof an alternating magnetically induced force around thecylinder can result in interesting improvement of quality andproductivity. Application of numerical methods is also studiedin another field of the surface finishing industry, thepainting atomizers. A critical situation of "reverse flow" isanalyzed. Different parameters of this phenomenon are studiedand suggestions for atomizers design are given and tested.</p><p><b>Keywords:</b>mass transfer, electrochemical coating, iontransport, forced convection, diffusion, magnetoelectrolysis,electrolyte, limiting current, numerical simulation,finite-volume methods, paint atomization, Coanda effect.</p>

In this study, forced convection cooling of package of 2-D parallel boards with heat generating chips is investigated. The main objective of this study is to determine the optimal board-to-board spacing to maintain the temperature of the components below the allowable temperature limit and maximize the rate of heat transfer from parallel heat generating boards cooled by forced convection under constant pressure drop across the package. Constant heat flux and constant wall temperature boundary conditions on the chips are applied for laminar and turbulent flows. Finite elements method is used to solve the governing continuity, momentum and energy equations. Ansys-Flotran computational fluid dynamics solver is utilized to obtain the numerical results. The solution approach and results are compared with the experimental, numerical and theoretical results in the literature. The results are presented for both the laminar and turbulent flows. Laminar flow results improve existing relations in the literature. It introduces the effect of chip spacing on the optimum board spacing and corresponding maximum heat transfer. Turbulent flow results are original in the sense that a complete solution of turbulent flow through the boards with discrete heat sources with constant temperature and constant heat flux boundary conditions are obtained for the first time. Moreover, optimization of board-to-board spacing and maximum heat transfer rate is introduced, including the effects of chip spacing.

The high ozone depletion and global warming potentials of fluorocarbon refrigerants have resulted in prohibitions and restrictions in many markets. Hydrocarbon refrigerants have low environmental impacts and are successfully used in domestic refrigerators and car air conditioners but replacing fluorocarbons in centrifugal chillers for air conditioning applications is unknown. Hydrocarbon replacements need a heat transfer correlation for refrigerant in flooded evaporators and predictions for operating conditions, capacity and performance. Safety precautions for large quantities of hydrocarbon refrigerants are needed and control of overpressure in plantrooms requires accurate prediction. Reliable correlations exist for forced convection in a single phase flow, condensation outside tubes and evaporation off sprayed tubes. For flooded evaporators this thesis proposes a new correlation for forced convection boiling of any refrigerant. An enhancement factor is combined with a modified Chen coefficient using recent pool boiling and forced convection correlations outside tubes. This correlates within typically a factor of two to known boiling literature measurements for CFC-113, CFC-11, HCFC-123, HFC-134a and HC-601. The operating conditions, capacity and performance of replacement hydrocarbons in centrifugal chillers were predicted using fluorocarbon performance as a model. With the new heat transfer correlation hydrocarbon predictions for flooded evaporators were made. For any fluorocarbon refrigerant there exists a replacement mixture of hydrocarbons which with a rotor speed increase about 40% gives the same cooling capacity in the same centrifugal chiller under the same operating conditions. For example replacing HCFC-123 in a flooded evaporator with HC-601/602 [90.4/9.6] and increasing the rotor speed by 43% will increase the coefficient of performance by 4.5% at the same cooling capacity. The maximum plantroom overpressure considered was from leakage and ignition of a uniform air/refrigerant mixture with maximum laminar burning velocity. Flow was modelled using a turbulence viscosity due to Launder and Spalding and turbulent deflagration using a reaction progress variable after Zimont. These partial differential equations were solved approximately for two and three dimensional geometries using finite volume methods from the Fluent program suite. Simple overpressure predictions from maximum flame area approximations agreed with Fluent results within 13.7% promising safe plantroom design without months of computer calculation.

Le but de l'étude présentée dans ce mémoire de thèse est de caractériser localement l'intensification des transferts thermiques observée le long d'une plaque chauffante lorsqu'elle est soumise à des ultrasons. Ces derniers induisent des effets hydrodynamique dans les fluides qu'ils traversent. Premièrement, la cavitation acoustique, qui permet de produire de forts effets mécaniques dans les liquides. Viens ensuite le courant acoustique qui génère une écoulement convectif sous l'action d'une dissipation visqueuse de l’énergie acoustique. Ce travaille à permis de mettre en évidence la relation existant entre ces effets hydrodynamiques et l'intensification des transferts thermiques observée. Ces résultats ont permis de définir quelles conditions expérimentales sont favorables à l'intégration d'ultrasons dans un échangeur de chaleur. / The aim of the study presented in this thesis is to characterize heat transfer enhancement by ultrasound observed along a hot plate in forced convection. These induced hydrodynamic effects in the fluids they cross. The first one is the acoustic cavitation, which can produce strong mechanical effects in liquids. The second one is the acoustic streaming which generates convective flows thanks to viscous dissipation of the acoustic energy. This work helped to highlight the relationship between ultrasound hydrodynamic effects and heat transfer enhancement. Thanks to those results, experimental conditions which allowed ultrasound integration in a heat exchangers, could be determined.

Orientador: Carlos Alberto Carrasco Altemani / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T09:22:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alves_ThiagoAntonini_D.pdf: 12931422 bytes, checksum: b3858d05581229381f7d14684d29e979 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A transferência de calor conjugada por convecção forçada e condução de três aquecedores 2D montados rentes ou protuberantes na placa inferior (substrato) de um canal de placas paralelas foi investigada numericamente em regime permanente. Uma taxa uniforme de geração de calor foi assumida em cada aquecedor e seu resfriamento ocorreu por meio de um escoamento forçado de ar com propriedades constantes em regime laminar. Na entrada do canal, os perfis de velocidade e de temperatura do escoamento eram uniformes. Este problema está relacionado ao resfriamento de componentes eletrônicos montados numa placa de circuito impresso. Para um substrato adiabático, o resfriamento dos aquecedores ocorre apenas por convecção forçada. Para um substrato condutivo, dois mecanismos para a transferência de calor dos aquecedores para o escoamento fluido foram considerados. Um, por convecção forçada, diretamente das superfícies dos aquecedores em contato com o escoamento e outro, por condução através das interfaces substrato-aquecedor. As equações de conservação foram resolvidas dentro de um domínio único, que englobou as regiões sólidas e de fluido, através de um procedimento acoplado. Nesta Tese foi proposto um descritor invariante do processo conjugado de transferência de calor por convecção forçada e condução, por meio de coeficientes de influência conjugados g+, agrupados numa matriz quadrada G+. Com este descritor, a temperatura de cada aquecedor foi determinada a partir de taxas arbitrárias de geração de calor nos aquecedores. Os resultados foram obtidos para números de Reynolds na faixa de 600 a 1900, correspondendo a velocidades médias de entrada do ar no canal na faixa de 0,5 m/s a 1,5 m/s. Os efeitos da razão entre a condutividade térmica do substrato e a do ar foram estudados na faixa de 0 (substrato adiabático) a 80, uma faixa típica de materiais de circuito impresso. A altura dos aquecedores variou entre 0 (aquecedores rentes) e 35% em relação à altura do canal, sendo que em todos os casos o aquecedor possuía uma condutividade térmica 500 vezes maior do que a do ar. / Abstract: The conjugate heat transfer by forced convection and conduction from three 2D heaters either flush mounted or protruding from the lower plate (substrate) of a parallel plates channel was investigated numerically under steady state conditions. A uniform heat generation rate was assumed in each heater and the cooling was performed by means of a forced air flow with constant properties in the laminar regime. At the channel entrance the flow velocity and temperature profiles were assumed uniform. This problem is related to the cooling of electronic components mounted on a circuit board. For an adiabatic substrate, the heaters are cooled only by forced convection. For a conductive substrate, two mechanisms were considered for the heat transfer from the heaters to the fluid flow. One, by forced convection, directly from the heaters surfaces in contact with the flow, and the other, by conduction through the heaters-substrate interfaces. The conservation equations were solved through a coupled procedure within a single calculation domain comprising the solid and fluid regions. In this Thesis an invariant descriptor of the conjugate forced convection and conduction heat transfer was proposed by means of conjugate influence coefficients g+ which were grouped in a square matrix G+. With this descriptor, the temperature of each heater was obtained from an arbitrary distribution of the heat generation rate in the heaters. The results were obtained for Reynolds numbers Re in the range from 600 to 1900, corresponding to average air velocities in the channel entrance from 0.5 m/s to 1.5 m/s. The ratio of the substrate plate thermal conductivity relative to that of the air was considered in the range from 0 (adiabatic substrate) to 80, typical of printed circuit boards. The heaters' height in the channel ranged from 0 (flush mounted) to 35 % of the channel height, while their thermal conductivity was always assumed equal to 500 that of the air. / Doutorado / Termica e Fluidos / Doutor em Engenharia Mecânica

Orientador: Vivaldo Silveira Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T21:24:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Barbin_DouglasFernandes_M.pdf: 2471115 bytes, checksum: d96f699c328a8086ec9a94c3315aab07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: A redução do tempo de congelamento de produtos alimentícios é um objetivo almejado, devido este processo ser caro e que envolve elevado gasto energético. Os produtos alimentícios são predominantemente congelados em túneis com convecção forçada por insuflação de ar; porém, é preferível realizar a exaustão de ar, ao invés de insuflação, pelo fato da exaustão promover uma circulação de ar mais uniforme ao redor do produto. Um túnel de ar forçado por exaustão é composto por um ventilador que circula de forma a retirar o ar, produzindo uma região de baixa pressão, onde se localiza o produto, buscando uniformizar a circulação do ar frio em contato com o mesmo. Desse modo, este trabalho se propôs à montagem experimental de um túnel ¿portátil¿ de congelamento por ar forçado, onde se pode estudar a utilização de insuflação e exaustão de ar. Este túnel foi construído e alocado no interior de uma câmara de armazenagem de produtos congelados, buscando melhorar a distribuição do ar, potencializando a troca térmica entre o ar e o produto a ser congelado. A montagem foi monitorada através de termopares para determinação das curvas de congelamento e eficiência do sistema. Durante o processo de congelamento, foi avaliada a transferência de calor através da montagem, comparando os processos de exaustão e insuflação e analisados os coeficientes de transferência de calor entre o ar de resfriamento e o produto em diferentes posições e camadas do palete, bem como a distribuição do ar de resfriamento em circulação ao redor do produto. Os resultados mostraram uma redução no tempo de congelamento das amostras com a utilização do túnel ¿portátil¿ em relação ao processo sem a utilização deste aparato dentro da câmara. O processo de exaustão apresentou uma redução de até quatro horas para o congelamento em relação à insuflação. Os valores de coeficiente de convecção foram maiores para a exaustão do que para a insuflação em todas as camadas da montagem, com exceção da superior, que recebia o ar diretamente do interior da câmara na insuflação. Um coeficiente de heterogeneidade foi proposto para avaliar a diferença de temperaturas no produto durante o congelamento. Estes valores, juntamente com a análise das temperaturas obtidas no processo, mostraram que a distribuição do ar, bem como a transferência de calor, ocorre de maneira mais homogênea no interior do palete na exaustão do que na insuflação / Abstract: The conditions necessary to keep the air temperature and movement at the product surface will determine the freezing process efficiency. Since the energy level could implement on the final cost, the reduction of the freezing process time was a major goal in the whole experiment. Food products are predominantly frozen in air blast freezing tunnels. Therefore, exhausting air is preferable than blowing it through, since it minimizes air short-circuiting and results in more uniform cooling. To produce an homogeneous refrigeration, the main configuration to be determined for pallets storing plastic packages in boxes are the package distribution and air orientation. The main components of an exhausting forced-air tunnel are a fan that causes the equipment inside air evacuation creating a low pressure region. The product is arranged on this spot creating uniform distribution of the cold air inside the equipment, around the product. Therefore, the objective of this work is to build an experimental portable forced-air freezing tunnel, and work on comparative studies with air exhausting and blowing. The tunnel was built and placed inside a freezing product storage chamber, and the objective was to improve the air circulation and the thermal distribution between the product and cold air, for a sample batch left inside the chamber. The batch was monitored using thermocouples for freezing variation and system efficiency graphic determination. It was also provided the heat transfer analysis, comparing the exhausting and blowing process, and the heat transfer coefficients of the cold air and the product as well as the air distribution around the product. The results have shown reduction of the freezing time of the samples when the portable tunnel was used comparing without the tunnel tests (reference). The air evacuation process reduced up to four hours with comparison to the blowing system the freezing process. Convective coefficient results were higher for air evacuation than air blowing in every part of the batch, except for the upper layer of products were the cold air of the chamber was directly in contact with the product. These results, with the temperature analysis obtained, indicated that the air distribution occurs more uniformly around the products in the exhausting process than blowing system, as well as the heat transfer / Mestrado / Mestre em Engenharia de Alimentos