The Galerkin weighted residuals method is extended solve the laminar, fully developed flow and heat transfer of Al2O3-water nanofluid inside polygonal ducts with round corners for the constant heat flux and uniform wall temperature boundary conditions. Using the method, semi-analytical, closed-form solutions are obtained for the friction coefficient and the Nusselt number in terms of the radius...

[1] In the middle of March 2002 a synoptic upwelling event occurred in the Southern California Bight; it was marked by a precipitous cooling of at least 4°C within 10–20 km of the coast. By the end of the month the preevent temperatures had slowly recovered. The Regional Oceanic Model System (ROMS) is used to simulate the event with an atmospheric downscaling reanalysis for surface wind and buo...

The study of vail roughness effects on model heat transfer in high Reynolds number shock tunnel flows of a few milliseconds duration requires the use of a rugged, fast-response calorimeter of known surface roughness. Models constructed of continuous thin copper sheeting over a solid Insulator substrate with rear thermocouples attached were developed for this purpose. TSut surface of the copper ...

Experimental studies and numerical simulation of growth and lift-off processes of single bubbles formed on designed nucleation sites have been conducted under low-gravity conditions. Merging of multiple bubbles and lift-off processes during boiling of water in the parabola flights of KC-135 aircraft were also experimentally studied. The heating area of the flat heater surface was discretized an...

This paper presents a study of the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM) for the laminar heat convection problem between two coaxial cylinders with constant heat flux boundary condition. DRBEM is one of the most successful technique used to transform the domain integrals arising from the nonhomogeneous term of the Poisson equation into equivalent boundary only integrals. This recentl...

The present study is concerned with effect of exciting boundary layer on increase in heat transfer from flat surfaces. As any increase in heat transfer between a fluid inside a face and another one outside of it can cause an increase in some equipment's efficiency, so at this present we have tried to increase the wall's heat transfer coefficient by exciting the fluid boundary layer. By a collis...

We numerically investigate turbulent thermal convection driven by a horizontal surface of constant heat flux and compare the results with those of constant temperature. Below Ra≈ 10, where Ra is the Rayleigh number, when the flow is smooth and regular, the heat transport in the two cases is essentially the same. For Ra> 10 the heat transport for imposed heat flux is smaller than that for consta...

Adaptive Cartesian mesh methods have demonstrated unique abilities for automated mesh generation and dynamic mesh adaptation to flow solution and moving boundaries. However Navier-Stokes (NS) solvers with Cartesian mesh often produce large fluctuations of surface quantities (pressure, skin friction, and heat flux) at solid boundaries. We show that the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) with adaptiv...

Proper partitioning of the surface energy fluxes that drive the evolution of the planetary boundary layer in numerical weather prediction models requires an accurate representation of initial land surface conditions. Unfortunately, soil temperature and moisture observations are unavailable in most areas and routine daily estimates of vegetation coverage and biomass are not easily available. Thi...

in order to examine the laminar convective heat transfer of nanofluid, experiments carried out using silver-oil nanofluid in a concentric annulus with outer constant heat flux as boundary condition. silver-oil nanofluid prepared by electrical explosion of wire technique and observed no nanoparticles agglomeration during nanofluid preparation process and carried out experiments. the average size...