Impact of an oscillating guide vane on the thermo-hydraulic fields in a square cavity with single inlet and outlet ports

Shih, Yen‐Ping; Khodadadi, J. M.; Nien, Shih-Wei; Zeng, Yi; Huang, Xuan-Long

doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.09.060

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“…The opening location, size, and number of ports are important in the HT amount [24]. Many methods have been offered to improve the HT with vented cavities, such as using fins [25,26], rotating objects [27,28], flow pulsations [29,30], magnetic fields [31], and elastic walls [32]. Nanofluids have also been considered in vented cavities and in convection studies [33][34][35][36][37][38], and their effectiveness has been shown.…”

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Effects of Surface Rotation on the Phase Change Process in a 3D Complex-Shaped Cylindrical Cavity with Ventilation Ports and Installed PCM Packed Bed System during Hybrid Nanofluid Convection

2021

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The combined effects of surface rotation and using binary nanoparticles on the phase change process in a 3D complex-shaped vented cavity with ventilation ports were studied during nanofluid convection. The geometry was a double T-shaped rotating vented cavity, while hybrid nanofluid contained binary Ag–MgO nano-sized particles. One of the novelties of the study wasthat a vented cavity was first used with the phase change–packed bed (PC–PB) system during nanofluid convection. The PC–PB system contained a spherical-shaped, encapsulated PCM paraffin wax. The Galerkin weighted residual finite element method was used as the solution method. The computations were carried out for varying values of the Reynolds numbers (100 ≤ Re ≤ 500),rotational Reynolds numbers (100 ≤ Rew ≤ 500), size of the ports (0.1L1 ≤ di ≤ 0.5L1), length of the PC–PB system (0.4L1 ≤ L0 ≤ L1), and location of the PC–PB (0 ≤ yp ≤ 0.25H). In the heat transfer fluid, the nanoparticle solid volume fraction amount was taken between 0 and 0.02%. When the fluid stream (Re) and surface rotational speed increased, the phase change process became fast. Effects of surface rotation became effective for lower values of Re while at Re = 100 and Re = 500; full phase transition time (tp) was reduced by about 39.8% and 24.5%. The port size and nanoparticle addition in the base fluid had positive impacts on the phase transition, while 34.8% reduction in tp was obtained at the largest port size, though this amount was only 9.5%, with the highest nanoparticle volume fraction. The length and vertical location of the PC–PB system have impacts on the phase transition dynamics. The reduction and increment amount in the value of tp with varying location and length of the PC–PB zone became 20% and 58%. As convection in cavities with ventilation ports are relevant in many thermal energy systems, the outcomes of this study will be helpful for the initial design and optimization of many PCM-embedded systems encountered in solar power, thermal management, refrigeration, and many other systems.

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