Characteristics of turbulence transport for momentum and heat in particle-laden turbulent vertical channel flows

Caixi Liu, Shuai Tang, Lian Shen, Yuhong Dong

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Abstract

The dynamic and thermal performance of particle-laden turbulent flow is investigated via direction numerical simulation combined with the Lagrangian point-particle tracking under the condition of two-way coupling, with a focus on the contributions of particle feedback effect to momentum and heat transfer of turbulence. We take into account the effects of particles on flow drag and Nusselt number and explore the possibility of drag reduction in conjunction with heat transfer enhancement in particle-laden turbulent flows. The effects of particles on momentum and heat transfer are analyzed, and the possibility of drag reduction in conjunction with heat transfer enhancement for the prototypical case of particle-laden turbulent channel flows is addressed. We present results of turbulence modification and heat transfer in turbulent particle-laden channel flow, which shows the heat transfer reduction when large inertial particles with low specific heat capacity are added to the flow. However, we also found an enhancement of the heat transfer and a small reduction of the flow drag when particles with high specific heat capacity are involved. The present results show that particles, which are active agents, interact not only with the velocity field, but also the temperature field and can cause a dissimilarity in momentum and heat transport. This demonstrates that the possibility to increase heat transfer and suppress friction drag can be achieved with addition of particles with different thermal properties.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)833-845
Number of pages13
JournalActa Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao
Volume33
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2017

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© 2017, The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Keywords

  • Direction numerical simulation (DNS)
  • Flow drag
  • Heat transfer
  • Lagrangian tracking approach
  • Particle-laden flow

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