Numerical study of heat transfer by convection and thermal radiation in an air cooled room

Norma Alejandra Rodríguez, Jesús Fernando Hinojosa

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Abstract

This study is focused to the heat transfer analysis in air cooled rooms, which is important to achieve pleasant indoor comfort conditions, fundamentally in terms of air velocity, temperature and air quality. Three dimensional numerical results of a rectangular ventilated room with three different inlet configurations are presented. The study was carried out considering a turbulent flow and the radiative exchange between the walls. The assumed heat flux on a vertical wall was 300 W/m2 (Rayleigh number of 1.07×1012). The inlet velocity was 0.5 m/s (Reynolds number of 3145) and the emissivity of the walls was fixed as 0.8. The mathematical model was solved numerically with Computational Fluid Dynamics software. The temperature fields, flow patterns, heat transfer coefficients and temperature distribution effectiveness are presented and discussed. It was found that the heat transfer due the radiative effect is around 50% for the three studied cases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. Collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Div. Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, HT 2012
Pages1039-1048
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference Collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Div. Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, HT 2012 - Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
Duration: 8 Jul 201212 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. Collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Div. Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, HT 2012
Volume1

Conference

ConferenceASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference Collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Div. Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, HT 2012
Country/TerritoryPuerto Rico
CityRio Grande
Period8/07/1212/07/12

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