Mechanical Engineering / Makina Mühendisliği

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    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 9
    Effects of Thermal Dispersion on Heat Transfer in Cross-Flow Tubular Heat Exchangers
    (Springer Verlag, 2012) Sano, Y.; Kuwahara, F.; Mobedi, Moghtada; Nakayama, A.
    Effects of thermal dispersion on heat transfer and temperature field within cross-flow tubular heat exchangers are investigated both analytically and numerically, exploiting the volume averaging theory in porous media. Thermal dispersion caused by fluid mixing due to the presence of the obstacles plays an important role in enhancing heat transfer. Therefore, it must be taken into account for accurate estimations of the exit temperature and total heat transfer rate. It is shown that the thermal dispersion coefficient is inversely proportional to the interstitial heat transfer coefficient. The present analysis reveals that conventional estimations without consideration of the thermal dispersion result in errors in the fluid temperature development and underestimation of the total heat transfer rate. © Springer-Verlag 2011.
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    Citation - WoS: 18
    Citation - Scopus: 24
    Forced Convection Heat Transfer Inside an Anisotropic Porous Channel With Oblique Principal Axes: Effect of Viscous Dissipation
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2010) Mobedi, Moghtada; Çekmer, Özgür; Pop, Ioan
    An analytical study on laminar and fully developed forced convection heat transfer in a parallel-plate horizontal channel filled with an anisotropic permeability porous medium is performed. The principal axis of the anisotropic porous medium is oriented from 0 to 90 degrees. A constant heat flux is applied on the outer wall of the channel. Both clear (Newtonian) fluid and Darcy viscous dissipations are considered in the energy equation. Directional permeability ratio parameter A* is defined to combine both the effect of the dimensionless permeability ratio parameter K*=(K 1/K2) and orientation angle φ into one parameter. The effects of the parameter A*, the Darcy number Da and the modified Brinkman number Br* on the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in the channels are investigated and presented in graphs. The obtained results show that the parameters A*, Da and Br* have strong effects on the dimensionless normalized velocity and temperature profiles as well as on the Nusselt number. It is found that for a particular value of A*, called as critical value Acr*, the external heat applied to the surface of the channel is balanced by the internal heat generation due to viscous dissipation and the bulk mean temperature approaches the wall temperature. Hence, the Nusselt number approaches infinity for the critical values A cr*. © 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.