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Forced Convective Drying of 3-D Moist Objects: Experimental Facility and CFD-Mass
Transfer Modeling
Inlet
Isotherms
Moist Object
Convective drying is a process of thermally removing volatile liquid from moist objects such as food
stuffs, ceramic products, clay products, wood etc. We are developing a 3D heat and mass transfer
model which will be coupled to a CFD code. This model will be able to predict the drying time
required for different Reynolds numbers and other drying conditions. All kinds of objects can be
modeled with different orientations and positions. These moist objects will be placed in front of a
hot and dry stream of air to predict the transient moisture content and temperature distribution. An
experimental facility will be built to validate the numerical model developed.
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Tw (W/m )
2
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353 Temperature profiles
352 at the wall for
351 = 0.5 =1 different extinction
350 =2 =5 coefficient
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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Heat generation zone Z (m)
representing a flame in a
combustion chamber
The block
structured grid
used in the
simulation
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Ra = 0
Ra = 2E3
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Heat transfer Ra = 2E4
Ra = 1E5
enhancement Ra = 2E5
20
because of buoyancy Ra = 1E6
force showing with Series7
Nuz
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effect of Rayleigh
number Ra on local
Nusselt number 10
5
2.47 line
0
0.001 0.01 0.1 1
Z/(RePrDh)
Contours of secondery
velocity profile at a
particular location for
Ra = 1E5 showing the effect
of buoyancy
Enhancement of Heat Transfer with porous inserts
Enhancement of combined convective and radiative heat transfer has become increasingly important in
developing compact and efficient high temperature thermal energy systems. Enhancement study of heat
transfer in a gas flow through duct is done by installing a solid or a porous plate in the flow stream. The
surface of the plate receives heat from gas by convection and emits radiation to the facing heat absorbing
surface. This results in a subsequent increase in heat transfer and the solid/porous plate is termed as
convection to radiation convertor (C-R-C). Porous materials have large surface area per unit volume and they
usually possess a much stronger thermal radiation emittance than the emittance of the gaseous fluid.
Inlet
Isotherms
Dimensionless z
Development of an algorithm for inverse problem of forced convection
and gas radiation in duct flows
The main objective is to generate a software package for inverse heat transfer problems
The algorithm for inverse heat transfer analysis will be coupled to a CFD source code
This will facilitate to solve practical heat transfer problems with complex geometries
The inverse algorithm will primarily focus on the determination of unknown boundary
conditions which are commonly known as boundary design problem
Unknown q(x,t)
u(y,z)
Tin H
Thermocouples
y
x
h
Insulated/constant temperature