Thermal-Fluid Transport Phenomena between Twin Rotating Parallel Disks

This paper investigates thermal-fluid transport phenomena in laminar flow between twin rotating parallel disks from whose center a circular jet is impinged on the heated horizontal bottom disk surface. Emphasis is placed on the effects of the Reynolds number, rotation speed, and disk spacing on both...

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Main Authors: Shuichi Torii, Wen-Jei Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-01-01
Series:International Journal of Rotating Machinery
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/406809
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description This paper investigates thermal-fluid transport phenomena in laminar flow between twin rotating parallel disks from whose center a circular jet is impinged on the heated horizontal bottom disk surface. Emphasis is placed on the effects of the Reynolds number, rotation speed, and disk spacing on both the formations of velocity and thermal fields and the heat transfer rate along the heated wall surface. The governing equations are discretized by means of a finite-difference technique and are numerically solved to determine the distributions of velocity vector and fluid temperature under the appropriate boundary conditions. It is found from the study that (i) the recirculation zone which appears on the bottom disk moves along the outward direction with an increase in the Reynolds number, (ii) when the Reynolds number is increased, heat transfer performance is intensified over the whole disk surface and the minimum value of the heat transfer rate moves in the downstream direction, and (iii) the heat transfer rate is induced due to the disk rotation, whose effect becomes larger due to the upper disk rotation.
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spelling doaj-art-a2bdf93288c24bc1adff6de3730989af2025-02-03T05:47:30ZengWileyInternational Journal of Rotating Machinery1023-621X1542-30342008-01-01200810.1155/2008/406809406809Thermal-Fluid Transport Phenomena between Twin Rotating Parallel DisksShuichi Torii0Wen-Jei Yang1Department of Mechanical System Engineering, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, JapanMechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAThis paper investigates thermal-fluid transport phenomena in laminar flow between twin rotating parallel disks from whose center a circular jet is impinged on the heated horizontal bottom disk surface. Emphasis is placed on the effects of the Reynolds number, rotation speed, and disk spacing on both the formations of velocity and thermal fields and the heat transfer rate along the heated wall surface. The governing equations are discretized by means of a finite-difference technique and are numerically solved to determine the distributions of velocity vector and fluid temperature under the appropriate boundary conditions. It is found from the study that (i) the recirculation zone which appears on the bottom disk moves along the outward direction with an increase in the Reynolds number, (ii) when the Reynolds number is increased, heat transfer performance is intensified over the whole disk surface and the minimum value of the heat transfer rate moves in the downstream direction, and (iii) the heat transfer rate is induced due to the disk rotation, whose effect becomes larger due to the upper disk rotation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/406809
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Thermal-Fluid Transport Phenomena between Twin Rotating Parallel Disks
International Journal of Rotating Machinery
title Thermal-Fluid Transport Phenomena between Twin Rotating Parallel Disks
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title_fullStr Thermal-Fluid Transport Phenomena between Twin Rotating Parallel Disks
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