Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics

Diameter effect on heat transfer deterioration of supercritical hydrocarbon fuel in vertical round tubes

  • CHENG Zeyuan ,
  • ZHU Jianqin ,
  • LI Haiwang
Expand
  • National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Aero-engine Aero-thermodynamics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China

Received date: 2015-09-29

  Revised date: 2016-11-16

  Online published: 2016-02-23

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (51406005); Defense Industrial Technology Development Program (B2120132006)

Abstract

Numerical study of diameter effect of heat transfer deterioration of supercritical hydrocarbon fuel by using Fluent was conducted, LS low Reynolds turbulence model was used for turbulence modeling, and the physical properties of surrogate fuel of RP-3 were calculated according to extended corresponding state law. Computation conditions in this study are listed: the system pressure is 3 MPa, the inlet temperature is 573 K, the heat flux is 500 kW/m2 and the mass flows are 0.001 5, 0.003 0 kg/s; the inner diameter ranges from 1 to 10 mm.The computation methods were proved to be accurate by good agreement between computed wall temperatures and experimental results under normal heat transfer. The results indicate that in the case of forced convection at low mass flow the heat transfer deterioration occurs more seriously and in more forward position with the larger diameter; the reason for heat transfer deterioration is that the specific heat is in sharp drop region after the maximum value, at high mass flow wall temperature is in positive proportion to tube diameter and there is no heat transfer deterioration occurring; the buoyancy effect works only in low mass flux cases and is enhanced with larger diameter; the criteria of the buoyancy effects working and the heat transfer deterioration boundary with tube diameters are given.

Cite this article

CHENG Zeyuan , ZHU Jianqin , LI Haiwang . Diameter effect on heat transfer deterioration of supercritical hydrocarbon fuel in vertical round tubes[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2016 , 37(10) : 2941 -2951 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2016.0037

References

[1] 贺武生. 超燃冲压发动机研究综述[J]. 火箭推进, 2005, 31(1):29-32. HE W S. Review of scramjet engine development[J]. Journal of Rocket Propulsion. 2005, 31(1):29-32(in Chinese).
[2] SOBEI D R, SPADACCIN L J. Hydrocarbon fuel cooling technologies for advanced propulsion[J]. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 1997, 119(2):344-351.
[3] SHIRALKAR B S, PETER G. Deterioration in heat transfer to fluids at supercritical pressure and high heat fluxes[J]. Journal of Heat Transfer, 1969, 91(1):27-36.
[4] MARIA J, HENRYK A. A numerical study of heat transfer to supercritical water flowing upward in vertical tubes under normal and deteriorated conditions[J]. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2013, 26(4):61-70.
[5] KOSHIZUKA S, TAKANO N, OKA Y. Numerical analysis of deterioration phenomena in heat transfer to supercritical water[J]. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 1995, 38(16):3077-3084.
[6] LEI X L, LI H X, ZHANG Y F, et al. Effect of buoyancy on the mechanism of heat transfer deterioration of supercritical water in horizontal tubes[J]. Journal of Heat Transfer, 2013, 135(1):1-9.
[7] MAHDI M, MAJID B. New analysis of heat transfer deterioration based on supercritical fluid property variations[J]. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2012, 26(1):197-200.
[8] LIU Z Q, LIANG J H, PAN Y. Numerical analysis of heat transfer deterioration of China RP-3 aviation kerosene in a circular tube at supercritical pressures:AIAA-2014-3358[R]. Reston:AIAA, 2014.
[9] DANG G X, ZHONG F Q, ZHANG Y J, et al. Numerical study of heat transfer deterioration of turbulent supercritical kerosene flow in heated circular tube[J]. International Journal of Heat Transfer, 2015, 85:1003-1011.
[10] SHIRALKAR B S, PETER G. The effect of swirl, inlet conditions, flow direction, and tube diameter on the heat transfer to fluids at supercritical pressure[J]. Journal of Heat Transfer, 1970, 92(3):465-471.
[11] ZHI S, SHUO C. Numerical investigation of diameter effect on heat transfer of supercritical water flows in horizontal round tubes[J]. Applied Thermal Engineering, 2011, 31(4):573-581.
[12] 程泽源, 朱剑琴, 金钊. 吸热型碳氢燃料RP-3替代模型研究[J]. 航空动力学报, 2016, 31(2), 391-398. CHENG Z Y, ZHU J Q, JIN Z. Study of surrogate model of endothermic hydrocarbon fuel RP-3[J]. Journal of Aerospace Power, 2016, 31(2), 391-398(in Chinese).
[13] DENG H W, ZHANG C B, XU G Q, et al. Visualization experiments of a specific fuel flow through quartz-glass tubes under both sub-and supercritical condtions[J]. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2012, 25(3):372-380.
[14] MAHDI M, MAJID B. The effect of the low Reynolds number k-e turbulence models on simulation of the enhanced and deterioration convective heat transfer to the supercritical fluid flows[J]. Heat Mass Transfer, 2011, 47(5):609-619.
[15] HE S, KIM W S, BAE J H. Assessment of performance of turbulence models in predicting supercritical pressure heat transfer in a vertical tube[J]. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2008, 51(19):4659-4675.
[16] KIM W S, HE S, JACKSON J D. Assessment by comparison with DNS data of turbulence models used in simulations of mixed convection[J]. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2008, 51(6):1293-1312.
[17] LAUNDER B E, SHARMA B I. Application of the energy-dissipation model of turbulence to the calculation of flow near a spinning disc[J]. Letters in Heat and Mass Transfer, 1974, 1(2):131-137.
[18] ANSYS, Inc. Fluent 14.5 User Guide[M]. Lebanon:Fluent Inc., 2013.
[19] 张春本. 超临界压力下碳氢燃料的流动与换热特性研究[D].北京:北京航空航天大学, 2011. ZHANG C B. Investigation of flow and heat transfer characteristics of hydrocarbon fuel at supercritical pressures[D].Beijing:Beihang University, 2011(in Chinese).
[20] WOOD R D, SMITH J M. Heat transfer in the critical region temperature and velocity profiles in turbulent flow[J]. AIChE Journal, 1964, 10(2):180-186.
[21] BAE Y Y, KIM H Y, KANG D J. Forced and mixed convection heat transfer to supercritical CO2 vertically flowing in a uniformly-heated circular tube[J]. Experimental Thermal Fluid Science, 2010, 34(8):1295-1308.
[22] URBANO A, NASUTI F. On the onset of heat transfer deterioration in supercritical coolant flow channels:AIAA-2012-2880[R]. Reston:AIAA, 2012.

Outlines

/