RESEARCH ARTICLE

Theoretical study of vibrating effect on heat transfer in laminar flow

  • Baoxing LI ,
  • Maocheng TIAN ,
  • Xueli LENG ,
  • Zheng ZHANG ,
  • Bo JIANG
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  • School of Energy and Power Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China

Received date: 20 Mar 2009

Accepted date: 23 Aug 2009

Published date: 05 Dec 2010

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Green’s function method was adopted to study the problem of vibrating effect on heat transfer in laminar flow with constant flux and the influence of Prandtl number and the vibrating frequency on the heat transfer characteristics was investigated. The results show that the variation of the frequency leads to a different distribution of the unsteady velocity and temperature; with a lower frequency, the vibrating will weaken the heat transfer, but the heat transfer will be enhanced with a higher frequency. A lower Prandtl number leads to a strenuous variation of heat transfer.

Cite this article

Baoxing LI , Maocheng TIAN , Xueli LENG , Zheng ZHANG , Bo JIANG . Theoretical study of vibrating effect on heat transfer in laminar flow[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2010 , 4(4) : 542 -545 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-010-0026-9

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2007CB206903).
Notation
athermal diffusivity/(m2·s-1)
iimaginary factor
J0Bessel function of the first kind of order 0
J1Bessel function of the first kind of order 1
N0Bessel function of the second kind of order 0
N1Bessel function of the second kind of order 1
NuNusselt number
ppressure/Pa
PrPrandtl number
qheat flux/(W·m-2)
rradius coordinate/m
r0tube radius/m
ReReynolds number
ttime/s
Ttemperature/K
uvelocity component in axial direction/(m·s-1)
xaxial coordinate/m
Greek symbols
βdimensionless amplitude of vibration parameter
θtemperature difference/K
μviscosity/(kg·m-1·s-1)
νkinematic viscosity/(m2·s-1)
ρdensity/(K·m-3)
ωangular velocity/(rad· s-1)
dimensionless quantity
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