Experimental Investigation of Asymmetric Heating in a High Aspect Ratio Cooling Channel with Supercritical Nitrogen

Investigation of Transcritical Methane Flow and Heat Transfer in Curved Cooling Channels

“…11 The presence of the Dean vortices in asymmetrically heated channel perturbs the thermal stratification which typically occurs also in straight HARCC. [12][13][14] In fact, in the presence of heat transfer, the secondary flow enhances mixing between the low-density fluid near the hot wall and the high-density fluid near the cold wall. Variable density effects that arise because of the temperature gradients will enhance or reduce the strength of this vortical structure, depending on the orientation of the curvature with respect to the incoming heat flux.…”

CFD Analysis of Curved Cooling Channel Flow and Heat Transfer in Rocket Engines

“…4 In case of asymmetrically heated channel, the Dean vortices perturb the thermal stratification, which typically occurs in straight HARCC. [8][9][10][11] In fact, in the presence of heat transfer, the secondary flow enhances mixing between the low-density fluid near the hot wall and the high-density fluid near the cold wall. In the case of wall heated at the concave side, the vortex pair transports fluid from the cold side to the heated side at the channel center line.…”