Numerical Simulation of a Spiral Wall

A. Z.DELLIL^1,

¹Institut de Maintenance et de Sécurité Industrielle, IMSI, Université d'es-senia,Laboratoire. Mécanique .Appliquée USTO, Oran, ALGERIE

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A. Z.DELLIL. Numerical Simulation of a Spiral Wall. American Journal of Industrial Engineering. 2013; 1(2):5-11. doi: 10.12691/ajie-1-2-1

Abstract

This work presents a study of the thermal characteristics of a turbulent flow of a forced convection along various geometrical configurations: Smooth wall, wall corrugated in spiral, corrugated wall. The effects of pitch/diameter ratio and rib height to diameter ratio made it possible to develop this impact of this geometrical form (sometimes corrugated, sometimes spiral) in the intensification of the heat transfer. The physical process of increase in the heat transfer comes owing to the fact that the spiral shape of the tube contributes to break the formed boundary layer and to allow the continual replacement of the fluid meadows of the solid wall. The numerical results obtained prove that this corrugated form or into spiral intensifies the heat transfer thanks to model SST for Reynolds numbers varying from 5000 to 55000, Indeed when the pitch and the depth of the rib increases from P/d_h = 0.18, e/d_h = 0.02 to P/d_h = 0.27, e/d_h = 0.06. The ratio of the numbers of Nusselt increases with the rise in the step and the depth of the notch. Several explanations can be advanced, among these last, the spirals are the cause of the presence of the viscous effects, which slow down the flow in the notch of the spiral (broken boundary layer). The low depth of the notch, going from 0.02 up to 0.04 does not allow a significant thermal intensification, on the other hand for the strong values of the notch (0.05 to 0.06) the presence of turbulence supports good Nusselt. We notes that this last increases with the amplitude of the undulation up to the value of 0.05H. Beyond the value of the amplitude, the number of Nusselt tends towards the constant value.

Keywords:
corrugated wall turbulence model SST model thermal transfer

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