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Effects of rotation number on heat transfer and fluid flow in a three-pass serpentine passage with lateral outflow

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The purpose of this study is to experimentally and numerically investigate the effects of rotation number on heat transfer and fluid flow in a three-pass serpentine passage with lateral outflow. In the present study, the rotation number varies from 0 to 0.09, and the inlet Reynolds number is 5000. The heat transfer coefficient distribution of the three-pass serpentine passage is measured using the transient liquid crystal technique. The current work fills the research gap of the effect of rotation number on heat transfer distribution in a three-pass serpentine passages with lateral outflow. The results of this study show that the span-wise-averaged Nusselt numbers in the region of l/d < 16 and l/d > 33.6 increase monotonically with the rotation number increasing, particularly in l/d = 6.4, with a maximum increase of 58.5%. However, the rotation reduces the Nusselt numbers of the middle passage by between 2.6 and 7.3% when the rotation number increases from 0 to 0.06. The area-averaged Nusselt numbers rapidly decrease in the area of Ai = 4; this phenomenon is more obvious at higher rotation numbers, and the maximum decrease is 34.6%. The pressure coefficient in the region of l/d < 14 tends to increase gradually along the flow direction when Ro = 0.09. The rotation changes the flow direction and shrinks the vortex size in the lateral-outflow passage. Accordingly, the pressure coefficient rapidly increases by 74.1% in the lateral-outflow passage when Ro = 0.06 and Ro = 0.09.

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Abbreviations

D f :

Hole diameter (m)

X :

Coordinate direction (m)

T :

Temperature (K)

A :

Area of inlet (m2)

d :

Hydraulic diameter of channel inlet (m)

l :

Distance from the channel inlet

v :

Flow velocity (m s−1)

v 0 :

Flow velocity of inlet (m s−1)

R :

Rotation radius (m)

M inlet :

Inlet mass flow rate of inlet (kg s−1)

M i :

i outlet mass flow rate (kg s−1)

Re:

Reynolds number

Rew :

Rotation Reynolds number

Ro:

Rotation number

T 0 :

Initial temperature (K)

T w,av :

Averaged wall temperature (K)

P :

Pressure (Pa)

P 0 :

Static pressure of inlet (Pa)

Nu:

Nusselt number

C p :

Pressure coefficient

q :

Heat flux (W m−2)

c :

Specific heat capacity (J kg−1 K−1))

h :

Heat transfer coefficient (W m−2 K−1)

Cal:

Calculation

Exp:

Experiment

τ :

Color change time (s)

μ :

Mainstream viscosity coefficient (Pa s)

λ :

Heat conductivity coefficient (W m−1 K−1)

ρ :

Mainstream density (kg m−3)

ω :

Rotation rate (rad s−1)

θ :

Excess temperature (K)

g:

Mainstream

inlet:

Channel inlet

w:

Wall

aw:

Adiabatic wall

ave:

Average

cor:

Corrector

i:

Test point number

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The authors acknowledge gratefully the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51776173) and National Science and Technology Major Project (Grant No. 2017-Ш-0003-0027) and the Innovation Capacity Support Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Grant No. 2019KJXX-065).

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This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51776173) and National Science and Technology Major Project (Grant No. 2017-Ш-0003-0027) and the Innovation Capacity Support Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Grant No. 2019KJXX-065).

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Zhang, Bl., Zhu, Hr. & Liu, Cl. Effects of rotation number on heat transfer and fluid flow in a three-pass serpentine passage with lateral outflow. J Therm Anal Calorim 143, 309–325 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-09186-5

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