Natural Convection in Rotating Drums With Inner Surface Heating

Thermal Fluid Flow Transport Phenomenon in Unsteady Rotating Drumduring Spin‐Down Process

“…Later, they [4] observed flow pattern and temperature distribution in rotating drums subject to a sudden acceleration and inner surface heating, using the laser light-sheet method and ironconstantan thermocouples, respectively. In order to evaluate quantitatively the temperature distribution in the rotating drums, Kawashima and Yang [5] employed temperaturesensitive liquid crystals as a noninvasive method. A series of studies was focused on visualization of two-dimensional This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.…”

“…thermal fields. To observe a three-dimensional hot plume growing inside a rotating system, Kawashima and Yang [5] employed the thermosensitive liquid crystal and thermocouple and investigated the formation and growth of thermally stratified layers. Ohue et al [6] investigated energy dissipation and formation of the Ekman boundary layer in an unsteady flow during a spin-down process inside a rotating drum by means of both the tracer/light sheet and LDV methods.…”