This theoretical study has been undertaken in order to provide insights into the steady two-dimensional laminar film condensation heat transfer on an isothermal vertical flat wall and a cylindrical surface. Condensation is given to both the pure water vapor and water vapor-air mixture. Only the saturated state of the bulk vapor is considered. The effects of liquid-vapor resistance, gas-solubility in the condensate, thermal diffusion and diffusion thermo are neglected. The presence of air as non-condensing gas has been fully accounted for in this study. The physical properties of the condensate liquid are taken to be those of saturated water at the appropriate temperature. The properties of the vapor region are considered to be constant except for the density of the mixture. The method of solution is based on the numerical techniques of laminar boundary layer theory. By using liquid-vapor interface matching, an approximate integral solution is obtained. In this study, it was found that the presence of a small amount of air as a non-condensing gas in the water vapor-air mixture plays a decisive role in decreasing the condensation heat transfer. The decrease is more pronounced at lower bulk temperature, TV, and higher values of (TV-TW). As the mass fraction of air in the bulk, W∞, increases, the heat transfer decreases monotonically.

This diploma thesis is concerned with a problem of the line heat simulation by different kinds of materials with computer - aided COMSOL Multiphysics. The thesis is composed of three thematic units. In the first part there is a line heat principle shortly described and his basic physical quantities which are necessary for correct defining of the simulation. The second part is concerned with the software, its function, auxiliary modulus and a description of single actions, which are essential for making of the model. In the last part there is the whole process of the multiphysical task creation that enables to simulate line heat in a specific material in reliance on time.

Multilayer insulation (MLI) has been shown to be the best performing cryogenic insulation system at high vacuum (less than 10-3 torr), and is widely used on spaceflight vehicles. Over the past 50 years, many numerous investigations of MLI have yielded a general understanding of the many variables associated with MLI. MLI has been shown to be a function of variables such as warm boundary temperature, the number of reflector layers, and the spacer material in between reflectors, the interstitial gas pressure and the interstitial gas. Because conduction between reflectors increases with the thickness of the spacer material, and yet the radiation heat transfer is inversely proportional to the number of layers, it stands to reason that the thermal performance of MLI is a function of the number of layers per thickness, or layer density. Empirical equations that were derived based on some of the early tests showed that the conduction term was proportional to the layer density to a power. This power depended on the material combination and was determined by empirical test data. Many authors have graphically shown such optimal layer density, but none have provided any data at such low densities, or any method of determining this density. Keller, Cunnington, and Glassford showed MLI thermal performance as a function of layer density of high layer densities, but they didn’t show a minimal layer density or any data below the supposed optimal layer density. However, it was recently discovered by the author that by manipulating the derived empirical equations and taking a derivative with respect to layer density, a solution for on optimal layer density may be obtained. iv Several manufacturers have begun manufacturing MLI at densities below the analytical optimal density. This trend is apparently based on the theory that increased distance between layers lowers the conductive heat transfer and that there are no limitations on volume. By modifying the circumference of these blankets, the layer density can easily be varied. The most direct method of determining the thermal performance of MLI at cryogenic temperature is by evaporation (or “boil-off”) calorimetry. Several blankets were procured and tested at various layer densities by the Cryogenics Test Laboratory at NASA Kennedy Space Center. The blankets were tested over a wide range of layer densities including the analytical minimum. Several of the blankets were tested at the same insulation thickness while changing the layer density (thus a different number of reflector layers). Heat transfer optimization of the layer density of multilayer insulation systems would remove the variable of layer density from the complex method of designing such insulation systems. Since the layer density is one of the variables that in those complex equations that require more experience to understand fully grasp, this significantly simplifies the blanket design process. Additional testing was performed at various warm boundary temperatures and pressures. The testing and analysis was performed to determine thermal performance data and to simplify the analysis of cryogenic thermal insulation systems.

Thesis (M.App.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-250). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Orientador: Kamal Abdel Radi Ismail / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-24T07:44:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Martinelli_ValdisleyJose_M.pdf: 3830645 bytes, checksum: fa60238d6afea2e97d6f6e2886a91fc4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar o desenvolvimento de transferência de calor laminar por convecção natural em canais de placas planas verticais sujeito a aquecimento assimétrico. São analisadas condições de contorno com fluxo de calor uniforme nas paredes das placas e temperatura da parede uniforme. Soluções para escoamento em regime permanente são obtidos para o ar para diferentes fluxos de calor e diferentes temperaturas nas paredes (acima da temperatura do fluido na entrada do canal); bem como para diferentes geometrias do canal (variação da distância entre as placas (b)). As equações foram escritas em diferenças finitas utilizando variáveis primitivas e resolvidas implicitamente, usando discretização central em todos os termos das equações governantes, exceto para o caso de fluxo de calor que foi utilizado diferença unilateral de três níveis nos termos da derivada da temperatma. Os resultados indicam que existe uma distância ótima entre as placas onde ocorre a máxima troca de calor entre as placas e o fluido. Os resultados foram comparados com a literatura, tanto trabalhos numéricos como experimentais / Abstract: This work studies the developm.entof laminar free convection in vertical flat parallel plates with asymmetric heating. Thermal boundary conditions of uniform wall heat fluxes and uniform wall temperature are considered. Solutions of the flow on steady state are obtained for air at different wall heat fluxes and wall temperature differences (above the temperature of the fluid at the channel) and also different geometries of the channel (distance between the plates (b)). The equations were written in finite difference using primitive variables and they were solved by implicitesqueme all the terms of the governing equations, and by means of a three point derivative formula the terms wall temperature at heat fluxes. The results show there is one optimal distance between the plates to maximize the heat transfer. The results were compared with the literature, both numerical and experimentalworks / Mestrado / Termica e Fluidos / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica