Heat Transfer Enhancement of the Film Flow Falling along Vertical Fluted Plates

Shouta Satou, Takahiro Adachi

2014

Abstract

Heat transfer enhancement of the film flow falling along vertical rectangular fluted plates is investigated in this study. We have calculated the temporal evolution of the film flow by using the CLSVOF and GF methods, and obtained the steady state film and velocity distributions. It is found that the film flow goes inside the fluted part due to the effect of the surface tension for the fluted plate and the thickness near the fluted edge is thinner. This may lead to the heat transfer enhancement. Therefore, the temperature distribution is calculated in the thermally inlet region, which corresponds to the problem of two-phase version of the well-known Graetz-Nusselt's problem. Finally, we show the relation among the heat transfer, fluted geometries and the surface tension effect.

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Satou S. and Adachi T. (2014). Heat Transfer Enhancement of the Film Flow Falling along Vertical Fluted Plates . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-038-3, pages 607-612. DOI: 10.5220/0005104306070612


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@conference{simultech14,
author={Shouta Satou and Takahiro Adachi},
title={Heat Transfer Enhancement of the Film Flow Falling along Vertical Fluted Plates},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2014},
pages={607-612},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005104306070612},
isbn={978-989-758-038-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Heat Transfer Enhancement of the Film Flow Falling along Vertical Fluted Plates
SN - 978-989-758-038-3
AU - Satou S.
AU - Adachi T.
PY - 2014
SP - 607
EP - 612
DO - 10.5220/0005104306070612