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Wall Temperature at an Axial Location

For calculating the Nusselt no. at an axial location, we need the wall temperature at that location. The wall temperature at an axial location can be calculated in two ways:

  • By interpolating the Tw vs. x values exported to Excel from the wall temperature plot obtained above. 
  • By directly extracting the wall temperature at the desired location using the Probe function in the post-processor. 

The following video shows you the procedure for extracting the wall temperature at x=2.67 m; this value can then be used to calculate the Nusselt number. To repeat the calculation at a different axial location, you can right-click on appropriate items in the tree, duplicate and modify as necessary. You need to double-click on an item in the tree to modify it; this is easy to overlook.

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  1. Create a line at x = 2.67
  2. Go to Expressions, right click and click New
    1. Name Tw267
  3. Right click in Definition box > Functions > CFD-Post > maxVal
  4. Right click within the parenthese of maxVal > Variables > Temperature
  5. Right click after the @ sign > Locations > x267

Nusselt No.

To calculate the Nusselt no.:

  • Export values from your Tw vs. x plot to an Excel file by clicking on the Export button, as previously discussed in the Wall Temperature Plot section. You'll see that the Excel worksheet contains many values of Tw vs. x.  
  • Calculate Tm vs. x as discussed above.
  • Then calculate Nu directly in the same Excel worksheet from Tw and Tm. 

This yields Now that we have shown you how to get the mixed mean and wall temperatures at any axial location, you can create an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the Nusselt number at different axial locations. You can then plot this data to get a nice curve of Nu vs x.

 

Wall Shear

We plot the wall shear using the procedure shown in the video below.  

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Summary of the above video:

  1. Click on the Chart Viewer tab
  2. Click chart in the top toolbar
    1. Name it Wall Shear
  3. Click on Data Series Tab
    1. In Location dropdown menu, choose Wall
  4. Click on X Axis tab
    1. under Variable, choose X
  5. Click on Y Axis tab
    1. under Variable, choose Wall Shear X or Wall Shear
  6. Go to Location in the tree
    1. Double click on Wall
    2. Increase Sampling from 50 to 200

We then consider the trends in the wall shear in the heated, mixing and flow development sections and try to justify them through physical reasoning.

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Summary of the above video:

  1. As you heat flow, velocity increases
    1. Momentum at any any average is going to increase when heat is added
  2. The gradient of the velocity normal to the wall is higher, the wall shear is higher
    1. Wall shear increases in the heated region, as shown in the wall shear plot

You can spiff up your plot using the tips discussed below. This video also shows you how you could read in experimental results for comparing the wall shear between simulation and experiment.

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Summary of the above video:

  1. To edit how the Wall shear graph is displayed
    1. Select Wall shear in tree
    2. Click on General, check Title and enter title in Title blank
    3. in Data Series, enter series name in Name blank
    4. in X Axis, enter x axis label in Custom Label blank
    5. same for Y Axis
    6. in Line Display, uncheck "Use series..." and type within Legend Name blank
    7. in Chart Display, under Sizes, toggle with the line sizes and font
  2. To add another data series
    1. go to Data series tab of Wall Shear
    2. click on New button
    3. Scroll down, click File as  Data Source > browse for your file
  3. To export the chart
    1. Click the button next to undo
    2. Select location to save
    3. Rename

When the simulation was repeated for conditions for which experimental data are available, we got the comparison shown below. The difference in the average wall shear in the heated section between the simulation and experiment is a respectable 4%. Note that the wall shear in turbulent flows is difficult to predict accurately due to the steep velocity gradients at the wall. 

 

Fanning Friction Factor

The Fanning friction factor, also called the skin friction coefficient, is obtained by non-dimensionalizing the wall shear. It can be calculated and plotted using the procedure outlined below. 

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Summary of the above video:

  1. Create Location > Point 
    1. (2.67, .0294, 0)
  2. Probe wall shear at point: 
    1. Create Expression > Right Click > New Expression
    2. probe(Wall Shear)@w267 / 1.483 (Pa/K) /Tm267
  3. Can duplicate for different locations for a plot

Final Plots

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Summary of the above video:

  1. Display Wall Temperature vs. Position in pipe and compare with experimental data
  2. Display Pressure Variation vs. Position in pipe and compare with experimental data
  3. Display Temperature at Centerline vs. Position in pipe and compare with experimental data

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