Abstract The experimental analysis of steam direct contact condensation in a water pool at sub-atmospheric condition was carried out relevant configurations for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Vacuum Vessel Pressure Suppression System, during postulated Ingress Coolant Event category IV accidental scenario. This transient accident experimentally simulated reduced sca...

In this paper, Turbulent mixed convective heat transfer of water and Al2O3 nanofluid has been numerically studied in a horizontal tube under non-uniform heat flux on the upper wall and insulation in the lower wall using mixture model. For the discretization of governing equations, the second-order upstream difference scheme and finite volume method were used. The coupling of pressure and veloci...

The deterioration of the performance of a cross flow heat exchanger with condensation due to the longitudinal conduction was investigated. For a relatively small change of wall temperature along the flow directions which was shown to be common in many applications, the energy equations were solved numerically. An iterative method was used to solve the resulting equations of the finite differenc...

basic understanding of the process of coolant heat transfer inside an engine is an indispensable prerequisite to devise an infallible cooling strategy. coolant flow and its heat transfer affect the cooling efficiency, thermal load of heated components, and thermal efficiency of a diesel engine. an efficient approach to studying cooling system for diesel engine is a 3d computational fluid dynami...

the main purpose of this study is to perform numerical simulation of nanofluids as the coolant in vver-440 fuel rod bundle. the fuel rod bundle contains 60 fuel rods with length of 960 mm and 4 spacer grids. in vver-440 fuel rod bundle the coolant fluid (water) is in high pressure and temperature condition. in the present thermo-hydraulic simulation, water-al2o3 nanofluids containing various vo...

Condensation of water vapor is an essential process in power generation, water collection, and thermal management. Dropwise condensation, where condensed droplets are removed from the surface before coalescing into a film, has been shown to increase the heat transfer efficiency and water collection ability of many surfaces. Numerous efforts have been made to create surfaces which can promote dr...

Tests were run with both R-12 and R-l34a in a water calorimeter. Refrigerant 12 was run with mineral oil as the lubricant. Evaporating and condensing heat transfer coefficients were calculated over a range of temperatures. To evaluate the impact of the lubricant on the heat transfer coefficients, a oil separator was added. Tests were then run with the oil separator over the same temperature ran...

Abstract   An empirical investigation was carried out to study convective heat transfer of nanofluid flow inside an inclined copper tube under uniform heat flux condition. Required data are acquired for laminar and hydrodynamically fully developed flow inside round tube. The stable CuO-base oil nanofluid with different nanoparticle weight fractions of 0.5%, 1% and 2% was produced by means of ul...

Sometimes the need for non-circular ducts arises in many heat transfer applications because of lower pressure drop of non-circular cross section such as square duct compared to circular tube, particularly in compact heat. But square cross section has poor heat transfer performance and it is expected that using a nanofluid as a new heat transfer media may improve the heat transfer performance of...

In this article, a time dependent partial differential equation is used to model the nonlinear boundary value problem describing heat transfer through a radial porous moving fin with rectangular profile. The study is performed by applying a numerical solver in MATLAB (pdepe), which is a centered finite difference scheme. The thermal conductivity and fin surface emissivity are linearly ...