Heat transfer from oriented heat exchange areas

University of Žilina, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of power engineering – Univerzitná 1, 010 26, Žilina, Slovak Republic

^a Corresponding author: martin.vantuch@fstroj.uniza.sk

Published online: 25 March 2014

Abstract

This paper deals with the transfer of heat-driven heat transfer surface area in relation to the construction of the criterion equation for “n” horizontal pipe one about another. On the bases of theoretical models have been developed for calculating the thermal performance of natural convection by Churilla and Morgan, for various pipe diameters and temperatures. These models were compared with models created in CFD-Fluent Ansys the same boundary conditions. The aim of the analyse of heat and fluxional pipe fields „n“ pipes one about another at natural convection is the creation of criterion equation on the basis of which the heat output of heat transfer from pipe oriented areas one above another with given spacing could be quantified. At presence a sum of criterion equations exists for simple geometrical shapes of individual oriented geometrical areas but the criterion equation which would consider interaction of fluxional field generated by free convection from multiple oriented areas is not mentioned in standardly accessible technical literature and other magazine publications.