The present work consists of a numerical and experimental investigation of the effects of the presence of a solid boundary and inertial forces on mass transfer in porous media. Particular emphasis is placed on mass transfer through the porous medium near an impermeable boundary. The local volumeaveraging technique has been used to establish the governing equations. The numerical solution of the...

In this article, turbulent flow heat transfer in the air gap between rotor and stator of a generator under nonhomogeneous heat flux is studied experimentally. The rotor consists of four symmetrical triangular grooves. The stator surface is smooth and does not include any grooves. The relative heat flux between the rotor and the stator is 1 to 3. Temperature and heat flux are measured locally at...

Why heat and mass transfer ................................................................................................................................1 Fundamentals of heat transfer (what is it) ..........................................................................................................2 Thermodynamics of heat transfer ............................................................

Why heat and mass transfer ................................................................................................................................1 Fundamentals of heat transfer (what is it) ..........................................................................................................2 Thermodynamics of heat transfer ............................................................

A mass transfer model is proposed for prediction of permeate concentration and percent rejection at different inlet pressures and feed dye concentrations in membrane ultrafiltration. A differential equation in cylindrical co-ordinates considering the spiral wound membrane equivalent to a cylindrical module is derived which coupled with mass balance and permeate flux equations are solved to yiel...

The underlying objective of the present study is to increase gas-solids contact in a circulating fluidized bed by the introduction of obstacles in the riser portion. The presence of such obstacles leads to suppression of radial inhomogeneities in the solids mass flux and concentration, and break-up of solids clusters. At ambient conditions, gas-solids mass transfer was investigated for cocurren...

An experimental investigation was conducted to study the performance of film cooling injection from a cylindrical hole and a “W-shaped” hole. A Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) technique was used to map the spatial distribution of film cooling effectiveness on the surface of the test plate based on a mass-transfer analogy. The effects of mass flux ratio and density ratio on film cooling effective...

Due to the dependence of boiling heat transfer rate on heat flux, saturation pressure, mass flux and refrigerant quality, efforts made to increase heat transfer rate often cause further drop in refrigerant saturation pressure. In this study, entropy generation mechanisms associated with two-phase flow in smooth evaporator tube subject to constant surface heat flux are investigated. Refrigerant ...