Modelling and numerical simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer in thermoplates / Boban Maletić. 2009
Content
- List of Publications
- List of Symbols
- Introduction
- State of the Art
- Heat Transfer in a Parallel Plate Channel
- Physical model and governing equations
- Normalised temperature function and analytical solution
- The Nusselt Number
- Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Thermoplates
- Results
- Symmetric heated channels, steady state flows
- The velocity field
- The temperature field and the heat flux at the thermoplate surface
- Influence of the geometrical parameters
- Welding spot spacing in the flow direction
- Welding spot spacing in the cross direction
- Maximal plate distance
- Nusselt number correlation
- The thermo-fluid characteristic
- Welding spots pattern and thermoplate surface shape
- Symmetric heated channels, transient flows
- Asymmetric heated channels
- Validation through Experiments
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Numerical Method
- The finite volume method
- Discretised integrals for the process quantities
- Definition of the Model for StarCD
- POSDAT.f
- Mesh Test and Other Numerical Details
- Constants
- Numerical Results
- Acknowledgements