Advances in Heat Transfer (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Advances in Heat Transfer 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Contributors 10
Preface 12
Chapter 1. Transport Phenomena in Heterogeneous Media Based on Volume Averaging Theory 16
I. Introduction 16
II. Fundamentals of Hierarchical Volume Averaging Techniques 19
III. Nonlinear and Turbulent Transport in Porous Media 29
IV. Microscale Heat Transport Description Problems and VAT Approach 52
V. Radiative Heat Transport in Porous and Heterogeneous Media 71
VI. Flow Resistance Experiments and VAT-Based Data Reduction in Porous Media 81
VII. Experimental Measurements and Analysis of Internal Heat Transfer Coefficients in Porous Media 100
VIII. Thermal Conductivity Measurement in a Two-Phase Medium 111
IX. VAT-Based Compact Heat Exchanger Design and Optimization 126
X. New Optimization Technique for Material Design Based on VAT 142
XI. Concluding Remarks 144
Nomenclature 146
References 148
Chapter 2. Two-Phase Flow in Microchannels 160
I. Introduction 160
II. Characteristics of Microchannel Flow 161
III. Two-Phase Flow Regimes and Void Fraction in Microchannels 162
IV. Pressure Drop 195
V. Forced Flow Subcooled Boiling 206
VI. Critical Heat Flux in Microchannels 224
VII. Critical Flow in Cracks and Slits 239
VIII. Concluding Remarks 255
Nomenclature 257
References 259
Chapter 3. Turbulent Flow and Convection: The Prediction of Turbulent Flow and Convection in a Round Tube 270
I. Introduction 271
II. The Quantitative Representation of Turbulent Flow 275
III. The Quantitative Representation of Fully Developed Turbulent Convection 319
IV. Summary and Conclusions 363
References 371
Chapter 4. Progress in the Numerical Analysis of Compact Heat Exchanger Surfaces 378
I. Introduction 378
II. Physics of Flow and Heat Transfer of CHE Surfaces 381
III. Numerical Analysis 390
IV. Turbulence Models 395
V. Numerical Results of the CHE Surfaces 412
VI. Conclusions 447
Nomenclature 449
References 450
Author Index 460
Subject Index 476