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Hot Water Baseboard Heating and
Refrigerators
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Cold air sinks
It is warmer at
the bottom, so
this warmer air
It is put at the top,
rises and a
because cool air
convection
sinks, so it cools the
current is set up.
food on the way
down.
Convection
What happens to the particles in a liquid or a gas when you
heat them?
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Why is it windy at the seaside?
Theory of Convection Heat Transfer : Newton’s Law
& Nusselt’s Technology
Concept of Solid Fluid Interaction : Maxwell’s Theory
• Perfectly smooth surface (ideal surface) Real surface
U2
U1
U1
U2
U2
U
U
Φ Φ
Φ
Specular reflection
Diffuse reflection
• The convective heat transfer is defined for a combined solid and fluid
system.
• The fluid packets close to a solid wall attain a zero relative velocity close to
the solid wall : Momentum Boundary Layer.
• The fluid packets close to a solid wall come to thermal
equilibrium with the wall.
• The fluid particles will exchange maximum possible
energy flux with the solid wall.
• A Zero temperature difference exists between wall and
fluid packets at the wall.
• A small layer of fluid particles close the the wall come to
Mechanical, Thermal and Chemical Equilibrium With solid
wall.
• Fundamentally this fluid layer is in Thermodynamic
Equilibrium with the solid wall.
Physical Mechanism of
Convection Heat Transfer
Convection is the mechanism of heat transfer in
the presence of bulk fluid motion.
It can be classified as:
1) Natural or free convection:
The bulk fluid motion is due to buoyant force caused by density
gradient between the hot and cold fluid regions. The temperature &
velocity distributions of free convection along a vertical hot flat
surface is shown in figure below.
Ts
T∞
T∞
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2) Forced convection :
The bulk fluid motion is caused by external means, such as a
fan, a pump or natural wind, etc.
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The properties of the flow fields
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The properties of the flow fields
• Laminar flow versus turbulent flow
- Laminar flow: the stream lines are approximately parallel to
each other
- Turbulent flow: the bulk motion of the fluid is superimposed
with turbulence
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Heat Transfer in Equilibrium Layer
At the wall for fluid layer : At Thermodynamic equilibrium
T
k fluid A hAT fluid , wall T
T fluid , wall Twall
y Across equilibrium layer
T
k fluid
y wall
h
Twall T
• The thickness of stagnant layer decides the magnitude of normal temperature
gradient at the wall.
• And hence, the thickness of wall fluid layer decides the magnitude of convective
heat transfer coefficient.
• Typically, the convective heat transfer coefficient for laminar flow is relatively low
compared to the convective heat transfer coefficient for turbulent flow.
• This is due to turbulent flow having a thinner stagnant fluid film layer on the heat
transfer surface.
Estimation of Heat Transfer
Coefficient
T
k fluid
y wall
h
Twall T
T
q h Ts T Across
''
k
y y 0
Non-dimensional Temperature:
T T
Ts T
Non-dimensional length: y
y
*
T Temperatur e scale
*
y y 0 Length scale y y* 0
T Ts
h Ts T k fluid *
L y y* 0
k fluid
h
L y * y* 0
hL
y * y * 0
k fluid
This dimensionless temperature gradient at the wall is named as
Nusselt Number:
L
hL k fluid Conduction resistance
Nu
k fluid 1 Convection resistance
h
Local Nusselt Number
hL
Nu *
y y * 0
k fluid
havg L
Average Nusselt Number Nuavg
k fluid ,avg
Q hA(Ts T )
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• It is impossible to achieve a correlation equation for
convection heat transfer in terms of 10 variables. A better
way to reduce the number of variables is required.
• Dimensionless analysis
There are 11 parameters with 4 basic units (length, m), (mass,
kg), (temperature, oC or K) , and (time, s).
Applying the method of dimensional analysis, it can be
grouped into 11- 4 = 7 dimensionless groups, they are:
hL uL c p g L3 Ts u 2
F( , , , , , S)
k k 2
T c pT
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1. Nusselt number : NuL = hL
k
Ek u2
2. Eckert number : =
c pT
uL
3. Reynods number : Re L =
Ts
4. Temperature ratio : θs =
T
g L3
5. Grashof number : GrL =
2
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The Governing Parameters of
Convection Heat Transfer
a LbTsc d u 0
kg a c kg d L
b o
( 3 ) ( L) ( C ) ( ) 1
L sL s
L 3a b d 1 0
kg a d 0
o
Cc0
s d 1 0
d 1, c 0, a 1, b 1
Lu
Re L
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Simply the dimensionless equations !!!
Now we have reduced the equation involving 11
variables into a 7 dimensionless group equation.
However, 7 dimensionless groups is still too large, we
need neglecting the unimportant dimensionless
groups.
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Nu = f( Ek , ReL, θs , GrL , Pr, S)
Nu L F (Re L , Pr, S )
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The Physical Meaning of
The Dimensionless Numbers
• Nusselt Number
It is the ratio of convection heat transfer T2
rate to the conduction heat transfer rate.
Consider an internal flow in a channel of
height L and the temperatures at the lower L u
and upper surfaces are T1 & T2, respectively.
The convection heat transfer rate is
Q&cov hA(T1 T2 ) T1
The conduction heat transfer rate is
kA
Q&cond (T1 T2 )
L
Q&cov hA hL
NuL
The ratio &
Qcond kA k
L 31
• The Reynolds Number
It is the ratio of inertia force to viscous force of the
moving fluid.
- Inertia force
L 2 L 2
Fi ma L3 2
L ( ) L2 2
u
s s
uL uL uL
- The ratio Re L
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• The Prandtl Number
It is the ratio of the momentum diffusivity to the thermal
diffusivity.
The momentum diffusivity is the kinematic viscosity and it
controls the rate of diffusion of momentum in a fluid
medium.
Thermal difusivity controls how fast the heat diffuses in a
medium. It has the form
k
cp
The ratio of the two is called Prandtl number.
cp
Pr
k k
cp 33
• The Thermal Expansion Coefficient
It is defined as
1
( )p
T
The negative sign results from the fact that, for gases, the
change of density with respect to temperature under constant
pressure process is always negative. From ideal gas law
d 1
p RT dp RdT RTd 0 ( )p
dT T T
For ideal gas, the thermal expansion coefficient is the inverse
of the absolute temperature
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• Grashoff Number
g L 3
Gr 2
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• Grashof number Ts
g L3 g (T T ) L3 g (T T ) L3
GrL 2
2
2
The subscript L means that the characteristic length of the
Grashof number. It may be the length of the surface. For ideal
gas, GrL is
g (T T ) L3
GrL
2T
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Example
Air at 20°C blows over a hot plate, which is maintained at a
temperature Ts=300°C and has dimensions 20x40 cm.
T 20 C
Air
q”
TS 300 C
q"x TS T
• For air h=25 W/m2.K, therefore the heat flux is qx”= 7,000
W/m2
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