EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF COMBINED FORCED AND FREE LAMINAR CONVECTION IN A VERTICAL TUBE

Abstract

Experiments showed that fully developed heattransfer results, predicted by a previous analysis, were confirmed over the range of Rayleigh numbers investigated. The concept of locally fully developed heat transfer was established. Thermal entrance region data were obtained for pure forced convection and for combined forcedAND FREE CONVECTION. The analysis of laminar pure forced convection in the thermal entrance region conducted by Siegel, Sparrow, and Hallman (Appl. Sci. Res., Sec. A, Vol. 7, No. 5, 386-392, 1958) was experimentally confirmed. A tansition to an eddy motion, indicaed by a fluctuation in wall temperature, was found in many of the upflow runs. A stability correlation was found. The fully developed Nusselt numbers in downflow were below those for pure forced convection but fell about 10 percent above the analytical curve. Quite large circumferential variations in wall temperature were observed in downflow as compared with those encountered in upflow. With larger heating rates in downflow the wall temperature distributions strongly suggested a cell flow near the bottom. At still larger heating rates the wall temperatures varied in a periodic way.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0268344

Entities

People

  • Theodore M. Hallman

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Boiling Point
  • Convection
  • Flow Rate
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Balance
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Loss
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Physical Properties
  • Reynolds Number
  • Steady Flow
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermal Conductivity

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.