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Refroidissement d'une sphère par convection naturelle : applicabilité de la méthode de capacité à constantes réparties.

Cooling of a sphere by natural convection: the applicability of the lumped capacitance method.

Auteurs : VIRAG Z., ZIVIC M., KRIZMANIC S.

Type d'article : Article

Résumé

Two approaches to predicting the sphere cooling process by laminar natural convection were compared in terms of the accuracy of the volume averaged sphere temperature and the heat transfer rate between the sphere and the surrounding fluid. The first approach is based on the formulation of conjugate heat transfer (heat conduction in the sphere and laminar natural convection in the fluid). The second approach includes the lumped capacity method based on the assumption that the temperature in the sphere is spatially uniform and on the Churchill correlation function. The solution to the problem depends on the Rayleigh number (Ra), the Biot number (Bi), the Prandtl number (Pr), and the sphere-to-fluid thermal diffusivity ratio (A). The lumped capacitance method gives fairly accurate results with respect to the conjugate heat transfer method (discrepancy in the volume averaged sphere temperature less than 5%) when A · Bi/Ra(0.452) < 0.05, for Bi < 0.15 and Pr > 1. [Reprinted with permission from Elsevier. Copyright, 2011.]

Détails

  • Titre original : Cooling of a sphere by natural convection: the applicability of the lumped capacitance method.
  • Identifiant de la fiche : 30001815
  • Langues : Anglais
  • Source : International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer - vol. 54 - n. 11-12
  • Date d'édition : 05/2011
  • DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.02.034

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