Understanding heat/mass transfer mechanisms in turbulent flow is essential for solving many engineering problems. From the view point of heat/mass transfer control, surface roughness is popular for enhancing heat/mass transfer in turbulent pipe flow, relevant to heat exchangers, mixers, and nuclear reactors to name a few. Such a surface roughness is often modeled with a rib. In the current investigation, the flow and concentration fields from the LES data base were analyzed in detail. The profiles of mean velocity components, mean concentration, root-mean-squares (rms) of concentration fluctuations are presented at the selected streamwise locations downstream of a rib. In comparison with the straight-pipe case at the same Re and Sc, the effects of the ribs are clearly identified, leading to overall enhancement of turbulent mass transfer. The budget of concentration variance was computed and presented in the form of contours. Our LES results shed light on a complete understanding of the mass-transfer mechanisms in turbulent ribbed-pipe flow which has numerous applications in engineering.
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ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels
July 8–12, 2012
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA
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- Heat Transfer Division
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978-0-7918-4478-6
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Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Mass Transfer in Ribbed Pipe Flow Available to Purchase
Changwoo Kang,
Changwoo Kang
Inha University, Incheon, Korea
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Kyung-Soo Yang
Kyung-Soo Yang
Inha University, Incheon, Korea
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Changwoo Kang
Inha University, Incheon, Korea
Kyung-Soo Yang
Inha University, Incheon, Korea
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HT2012-58163, pp. 969-974; 6 pages
Published Online:
July 24, 2013
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Kang, C, & Yang, K. "Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Mass Transfer in Ribbed Pipe Flow." Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. Volume 2: Heat Transfer Enhancement for Practical Applications; Fire and Combustion; Multi-Phase Systems; Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment; Low Temperature Heat Transfer; Computational Heat Transfer. Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA. July 8–12, 2012. pp. 969-974. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2012-58163
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