Conduction heat transfer numerical method

The above derivation for LMTD involves two important assumptions (1) the fluid specific heats do not vary with temperature, and (2) the convection heat-transfer coefficients are constant throughout the heat exchanger. The second assumption is usually the more serious one because of entrance effects, fluid viscosity, and thermal-conductivity changes, etc. Numerical methods must normally be employed to correct for these effects. Section 10-8 describes one way of performing a variable-properties analysis. 

Similar equations apply to cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems. Finite difference, finite volume, or finite element methods are generally necessary to solve (5-15). Useful introductions to these numerical techniques are given in the General References and Sec. 3. Simple forms of (5-15) (constant k, uniform S) can be solved analytically. See Arpaci, Conduction Heat Transfer, Addison-Wesley, 1966, p. 180, and Carslaw and Jaeger, Conduction of Heat in Solids, Oxford University Press, 1959. For problems involving heat flow between two surfaces, each isothermal, with all other surfaces being adiabatic, the shape factor approach is useful (Mills, Heat Transfer, 2d ed., Prentice-Hall, 1999, p. 164). 

Pantani R, Speranza V, Titomanlio G (2001b) Relevance of (syrstallization kinetics in the simulation of injection molding process. Int Polym Process 16 61-71 Park SJ, Kwon TH (1996) Sensitivity analysis formulation for three-dimensional conduction heat transfer with complex geometries using a boundary element method. Int J Numer Methods Eng 39 2837-2862... 

Forced-Convection Flow. Heat transfer in pol3rmer processing is often dominated by the uVT flow advectlon terms the "Peclet Number" Pe - pcUL/k can be on the order of 10 -10 due to the polymer s low thermal conductivity. However, the inclusion of the first-order advective term tends to cause instabilities in numerical simulations, and the reader is directed to Reference (7) for a valuable treatment of this subject. Our flow code uses a method known as "streamline upwindlng" to avoid these Instabilities, and this example is intended to illustrate the performance of this feature. 

A chapter on numerical analysis in conduction and one on numerical analysis in convection are considered important features of the book. In this modem age of computers, the typical student uses software to help in solving heat transfer problems. For many, the software is a black box , a clever one, but nonetheless a black box. These chapters are written to enlighten the students about the methods and techniques used and programmed into the black boxes. 

Physical situations that involve radiation with conduction and convection are fairly common. Examples include automobile radiators and heat transfer in the furnace of boilers and incinerators. The energy equations become more complex as they comprise both temperature differences coming from convection and temperature derivatives coming from conduction. Hence, there are no classical methods of solution, but numerical methods and specific methods for particular problems. 

A concrete slab 15 cm thick has a thermal conductivity of 0.87 W/m - °C and has one face insulated and the other face exposed to an environment. The slab is initially uniform in temperature at 300°C, and the environment temperature is suddenly lowered to 90°C. The heat-transfer coefficient is proportional to the fourth root of the temperature difference between the surface and environment and has a value of 11 W/m2 °C at time zero. The environment temperature increases linearly with time and has a value of 200°C after 20 min. Using the numerical method, obtain the temperature distribution in the slab after 5, 10, 15, and 20 min. 

Conduction is treated from both the analytical and the numerical viewpoint, so that the reader is afforded the insight which is gained from analytical solutions as well as the important tools of numerical analysis which must often be used in practice. A similar procedure is followed in the presentation of convection heat transfer. An integral analysis of both free- and forced-convection boundary layers is used to present a physical picture of the convection process. From this physical description inferences may be drawn which naturally lead to the presentation of empirical and practical relations for calculating convection heat-transfer coefficients. Because it provides an easier instruction vehicle than other methods, the radiation-network method is used extensively in the introduction of analysis of radiation systems, while a more generalized formulation is given later. 

The radiative source term is a discretized formulation of the net radiant absorption for each volume zone which may be incorporated as a source term into numerical approximations for the generalized energy equation. As such, it permits formulation of energy balances on each zone that may include conductive and convective heat transfer. For K—> 0, GS —> 0, and GG —> 0 leading to S —> On. When K 0 and S = 0N, the gas is said to be in a state of radiative equilibrium. In the notation usually associated with the discrete ordinate (DO) and finite volume (FV) methods, see Modest (op. cit., Chap. 16), one would write S /V, = K[G - 4- g] = Here H. = G/4 is the average flux... 

Unlike the radiant loss from an optically thin flame, conductive or convective losses never can be consistent exactly with the plane-flame assumption that has been employed in our development. Loss analyses must consider non-one-dimensional heat transfer and should also take flame shapes into account if high accuracy is to be achieved. This is difficult to accomplish by methods other than numerical integration of partial differential equations. Therefore, extinction formulas that in principle can be used with an accuracy as great as that of equation (21) for radiant loss are unavailable for convective or conductive loss. The most convenient approach in accounting for convective or conductive losses appears to be to employ equation (24) with L(7 ) estimated from an approximate analysis. The accuracy of the extinction prediction then depends mainly on the accuracy of the heat-loss estimate. Rough heat-loss estimates are readily obtained from overall balances. 

In Section S-3 we considered one-dimensional heat conduction and assumed heat conduction in other directions to be negligible. Many heat transfer problems encountered in practice can be approximated as being one-dimensional, but this is not always the case. Sometimes we need to consider heat transfer in other directions as well when the variation of temperature in other directions is significani. In this section we consider the numerical formulation and solution of two-dimensional steady lieat conduclion in rectangular coordinates using the finite difference method. The approach presented below can be extended to three-dimensional cases. 

Abstract. This chapter introduces crystallization process of multicrystalline silicon by using a directional solidification method. Numerical analysis, which includes convective, conductive, and radiative heat transfers in the furnace is also introduced. Moreover, a model of impurity segregation is included in this chapter. A new model for three-dimensional (3D) global simulation of heat transfer in a unidirectional solidification furnace with square crucibles was also introduced. 

In the second chapter we consider steady-state and transient heat conduction and mass diffusion in quiescent media. The fundamental differential equations for the calculation of temperature fields are derived here. We show how analytical and numerical methods are used in the solution of practical cases. Alongside the Laplace transformation and the classical method of separating the variables, we have also presented an extensive discussion of finite difference methods which are very important in practice. Many of the results found for heat conduction can be transferred to the analogous process of mass diffusion. The mathematical solution formulations are the same for both fields. 

Mathematical modeling of mass or heat transfer in solids involves Pick s law of mass transfer or Fourier s law of heat conduction. Engineers are interested in the distribution of heat or concentration across the slab or the material in which the experiment is performed. This process is usually time varying and eventually reaches a steady state. This process is represented by parabolic partial differential equations with known initial conditions and boundary conditions at two ends. Both linear and nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations will be discussed in this chapter. We will present semianalytical solutions for linear parabolic partial differential equations and numerical solutions for nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations based on the numerical method of lines. 

The problem was solved by using a numerical method based mainly on the Dusinberre generalization of the increment method [9] applied to one-dimensional transient conduction. In fact, the heat transfer coefficient at the steel-rubber interface is very large, the surface rubber temperature changed very quickly, and consequently the initial temperature was taken as the arithmetic mean of the original surface temperatures of the mold and rubber. 

In previous sections of this chapter we discussed steady-state heat conduction in one direction. In many cases, however, steady-state heat conduction is occurring in two directions i.e., two-dimensional conduction is occurring. The two-dimensional solutions are more involved and in most cases analytical solutions are not available. One important approximate method to solve such problems is to use a numerical method discussed in detail in Section 4.15. Another important approximate method is the graphical method, which is a simple method that can provide reasonably accurate answers for the heat-transfer rate. This method is particularly applicable to systems having Isothermal boundaries. 

Derive steady-state and nonsteady-state mass and energy balances for a catalyst monolith channel in which several chemical reactions take place simultaneously. External and internal mass transfer limitations are assumed to prevail. The flow in the chaimel is laminar, but radial diffusion might play a role. Axial heat conduction in the solid material must be accounted for. For the sake of simplicity, use cylindrical geometry. Which numerical methods do you recommend for the solution of the model ... 

Numerical simulation of the melt growth of oxides and other semitransparent crystals is considered. Specific features of these crystals (internal radiative heat transfer, specular reflection from the crystal side, low thermal conductivity of both the crystal and the melt, the tendency to faceting of the crystallization front) and their effect on the growth process are discussed. An efficient numerical method is described and applied to the study of bismuth germanate crystal growth from the melt. 

If A and eg change with temperature, cf. section 2.1.4, a closed solution to the heat conduction equation cannot generally be found, which only leaves the possibility of using a numerical solution method. We will show how temperature dependent properties are accounted for by using the example of the plate, m = 0 in (2.274). The transfer of the solution to a cylinder or sphere (m = 1 or 2 respectively) is... 

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