To understand usage of solar air collector there are factors that have influence on the performance. The goal of this paper is to investigate a solar air collector prototype in order to perform a performance optimization using the possible min imum of equations. The thermal efficiency, fluid outlet temperature, heat increase and heat losses of the collector are calculated depending on the collector geometry, fluid properties, fluid inlet temperature, air flow rate, solar insulation and ambient temperature. The calculations were performed using actual data of temperature, wind speed and the global-horizontal radiation Hh over the year 2011 at the international airport of Annaba city. Comparison of results reveals that optimal efficacy is obtained for south facing panels with an inclination angle ß comprised in the interval [15°, 35°]. These conditions provide a useful energy exceeding 4300 W and an efficiency of about 51 %.
The intention of this study is to give an idea about the influence of water-spray cooling on the solidification process of the liquid metal which enables to locate the shear region. The effect of spray heat transfer coefficient (hspray) during the liquid-to-solid transition through the cooled zone temperature and the metal latent heat of solidification are highlighted. A gray iron continuous casting process subjected to water-sprays cooling was simulated using the commercial code COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS 5.2. The obtained results show the great influence of hspray on the location of transition region as well as the relationship between hspray, wall outer temperature, latent heat dissipation, and the solidification time.
Ordinary water spray cooling is connected with very high temperatures where heat transfer during evaporation plays a key role. However, during cooling without phase change, the behaviour of the spray cooling parameters is rarely considered. The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of spray hydrodynamic parameters on heat transfer without liquid phase change during the cooling of an aluminium 3003-H18 plate at a temperature of 92 °C. First of all, the flow rate was varied from 0.497 up to 1 l/min. Then, the inlet pressure varied from 0.7 to 2.1 bars. The influence of nozzle-to-target distance is also tested since the simulations were carried out in a wide height range, from 100 mm to 505 mm. The present simulation was achieved using the version 5.2 of COMSOL Multiphysics code.
Original scientific paper https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI19S4393OAs the behavior of the spray cooling parameters, during cooling without phase change, is rarely considered and there are only little investigations on that matter, this work is focused on the influence of the parameters involved in water spraying cooling process of an aluminum plate at a temperature of 92 °C. A detailed study of the effects of mass-flow rate, fluid pressure and the nozzle height above the hot plate was achieved using the version 5.2 of the COMSOL Multiphysics code. First of all, the flow rate was varied from 0.497 up to 1 L/min. Then, the inlet pressure varied from 0.7 to 2.1 bars. The influence of nozzle-totarget distance is also tested since the simulations were carried out in a wide height range (100 to 505 mm). The effect of the studied parameters on the temperature, total internal energy, convective heat flux, Reynolds number, spray distribution and velocity was investigated.
The present paper tackles the convergence and performance of three numerical turbulence models in the flow simulation. The benchmark analysis was performed using the COMSOL Multiphysics code, and the turbulence on a centrifugal water pump was generated numerically using the k−ε,k−ω, and k−ω SST models. However, the geometry was conducted on SolidWorks due to its complexity. First, the flow modeling was driven by solving the stationary Navier-Stokes equations. Then, the effects of the tested models, on the numerical CFD simulation, were examined. The analyzed results demonstrated that the best calculation precision was obtained using the k−ω model, whereas the lowest was provided by the k−ω SST model. A remarkable pumping performance was also recorded.
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