The temperature field inside a "truncated" wedge is investigated.
For this purpose the two dimensional Green's function of the
heat equation for this domain is established. Further applications of
these results center around a problem of heat conduction investigated
by Lebedev.
A complete analytical model of radiative and convective heat
transfer to a horizontal tube in small and large particle gas fluidized
beds has been developed. In the model the bed of particles
consists of an emulsion phase and a bubble phase. The emulsion phase
is approximated by a series of...
Heat transfer to moving packed beds of solids has been studied
extensively but predictions are usually specific to the experimenter's
own equipment. In order to obtain a more general predictive equation,
the heat transfer coefficient was measured for a single vertical tube
immersed in a moving packed bed of glass...
In-situ vapor extraction is performed by applying a pressure differential across a hydrophobic porous membrane that forms a wall of the channel as a means of reducing the local quality of flow boiling within the channel. As the local quality is reduced, the heat transfer capability can be improve while...
This thesis examines the transient response of a packed bed heat
regenerator when heated from an initial uniform bed temperature. Very large
(1700 K) temperature differences were studied as well as the effect of
simultaneous chemical reaction in the gas phase.
First the effects of temperature on physical and transport...
The implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method [16] for radiative transfer, developed in 1971, provides numerical solutions to the tightly-coupled, highly-nonlinear radiative heat transfer equations in many physical situations. Despite its popularity, there are instances of overheating in the solution for particular choices of time steps and spatial grid sizes. To...
A rotating, flat plate condensation experiment has been developed to
investigate the heat of the Rotating Bubble Membrane Radiator (RBMR). The
RBMR is a proposed heat rejection system for space applications which uses
working fluid condensation on the inside surface of a rotating sphere to
reject heat to space. The...
A two-dimensional model for predicting the rate of radiation
heat transfer for the interior of an industrial furnace is described.
The model is two-dimensional due to the assumptions of the heat
source as an infinite radiating plane and the heat sink as rows of
parallel tubes that are both infinite...
The problem of simple mathematical models of laminar natural convective
flow within a long vertical parallel-plate channels and circular tubes kept at
uniformly heated walls is revisited to seek a clear physical understanding of heat
transfer mechanisms. A series solution method to analyze the fully developed flow
and an integral...