Thermal analysis of a longitudinal trapezoidal fin with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficient

A homotopy analysis method (HAM) is used to develop analytical solution for the thermal performance of a straight fin of trapezoidal profile when both the thermal conductivity and the heat transfer coefficient are temperature dependent. Results are presented for the temperature distribution, heat transfer rate, and fin efficiency for a range of values of parameters appearing in the mathematical model. Since the HAM algorithm contains a parameter that controls the convergence and accuracy of the solution, its results can be verified internally by calculating the residual error. The HAM results were also found to be accurate to at least three places of decimal compared with the direct numerical solution of the mathematical model generated using a fourth–fifth-order Runge–Kutta–Fehlberg method. The HAM solution appears in terms of algebraic expressions which are not only easy to compute but also give highly accurate results covering a wide range of values of the parameters rather than the small values dictated by the perturbation solution.     

Homotopy analysis method to determine the fin efficiency of convective straight fins with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity

Most engineering problems, especially heat transfer equations, are mostly nonlinear. Homotopy analysis method (HAM) has been applied to solve many differential equations. In this paper, we use HAM to detect the fin efficiency of convective straight fins with temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. The results of the homotopy analysis method are compared with those of the exact solution and Adomian’s decomposition method (ADM) solved by Cihat Arslanturk.     

An approximation of the analytic solution of some nonlinear heat transfer in fin and 3D diffusion equations using HAM

In this article, the approximate solution of nonlinear heat diffusion and heat transfer equation are developed via homotopy analysis method (HAM). This method is a strong and easy‐to‐use analytic tool for investigating nonlinear problems, which does not need small parameters. HAM contains the auxiliary parameter ?, which provides us with a simple way to adjust and control the convergence region of solution series. By suitable choice of the auxiliary parameter ?, we can obtain reasonable solutions for large modulus. In this study, we compare HAM results, with those of homotopy perturbation method and the exact solutions. The first differential equation to be solved is a straight fin with a temperature‐dependent thermal conductivity and the second one is the two‐ and three‐dimensional unsteady diffusion problems. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2010     

Comparison of homotopy analysis method and homotopy-perturbation method for purely nonlinear fin-type problems

In this paper, the homotopy analysis method (HAM) is compared with the homotopy-perturbation method (HPM) and the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) to determine the temperature distribution of a straight rectangular fin with power-law temperature dependent surface heat flux. Comparisons of the results obtained by the HAM with that obtained by the ADM and HPM suggest that both the HPM and ADM are special case of the HAM.     

Topology Optimization of Fins for Rapid Heat Storage and Release in Triangular-Inside Tube Units北大核心CSCD

针对传统相变蓄热器传热速率低的问题,提出了一种内三角管式的蓄热器,并基于拓扑优化原理,以强化换热为目的,对其进行肋片设计,重构了拓扑结果,进而提取其拓扑特征重新设计肋片,分析了不同肋片设计对传热能力的影响。结果表明:内三角管式蓄热器相比传统圆管式蓄热器,蓄放热性能大大提高;安装拓扑重构肋片的蓄热器可以使蓄、放热时间缩短,传热效率提高;在蓄热过程中,分叉的拓扑特征可以提高自然对流作用;在放热过程中,安装拓扑重构肋片的蓄热器(火 积)耗散更小,可逆性更好,换热效率更高。     

前后排列旋转圆柱体对流热交换的格子Boltzmann方法解

用格子Boltzmann方法,数值研究流过前后排列两旋转圆柱体的二维层流．用二阶精度的速度场和温度场,数值化涉及运动的曲线边界．在Reynolds数为100,Prandtl数为0.71时,研究旋转速度比的变化和不同间距的影响．在4种不同间距(3, 1.5, 0.7, 0.2)下,研究旋转速度比的不同范围．结果表明,当间距取大数值时,第1个圆柱体的升力和阻力系数,与单个圆柱体相类似;对所有间距(除间距3以外),第2个圆柱体的升力系数,随着角速度的增加而减小,而阻力系数反而增加．圆柱体表面平均周期Nusselt数的结果表明,当两圆柱体间距小且角速度又低时,热传导是主要的传热机理,而当间距大且角速度又高时,对流是主要的传热机理．     

On the analytical solution for MHD natural convection flow and heat generation fluid in porous medium

Homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed to investigate the momentum, heat and mass transfer characteristics of MHD natural convection flow and heat generation fluid driven by a continuously moving permeable surface immersed in a fluid saturated porous medium. The solution is found to be dependent on several governing parameters, including the magnetic field strength parameter, Prandtl number, Darcy number, the dimensionless inertia coefficient, the dimensionless heat generation/absorption coefficient and the dimensionless suction/blowing coefficient. A parametric study of all governing parameters is carried out and representative results are illustrated to reveal a typical tendency of the solutions. Representative results are presented for velocity and temperature distributions as well as the local friction coefficient and local Nusselt number. Finally, a proper discussion is derived on the obtained results and some remarkable conclusions are mentioned.     

Analytic solution of natural convection flow of a non-Newtonian fluid between two vertical flat plates using homotopy analysis method

An analysis has been performed to study the natural convection of a non-Newtonian fluid between two infinite parallel vertical flat plates and the effects of the non-Newtonian nature of fluid on the heat transfer are studied. The governing boundary layer and temperature equations for this problem are reduced to an ordinary form and are solved by homotopy analysis method (HAM), and numerical method. Velocity and temperature profiles are shown graphically. The obtained results are valid for the whole solution domain with high accuracy. These methods can be easily extended to other linear and non-linear equations and so can be found widely applicable in engineering and sciences.     

Effects of thermal radiation and space porosity on MHD mixed convection flow in a vertical channel using homotopy analysis method

A study of MHD mixed convection flow through porous space in the presence of a temperature dependent heat source in a vertical channel with radiation has been analyzed. The Rosseland approximation is considered in the modeling of the conduction radiation heat transfer and temperatures of the walls are assumed constants. The governing equations are expressed in non-dimensional form and the series solutions of coupled system of equations are constructed for velocity and temperature using homotopy analysis method (HAM). The effects of various involved parameters on the velocity and temperature field are shown and discussed. The coefficient of skin friction, and the rate of heat transfer coefficient are obtained and illustrated graphically.     

Effect of material in-homogeneity on electro-thermo-mechanical behaviors of functionally graded piezoelectric rotating shaft

In this article, a hollow circular shaft made from functionally graded piezoelectric material (FGPM) such as PZT_5 has been studied which is rotating about its axis at a constant angular velocity ω. This shaft subjected to internal and external pressure, a distributed temperature field due to steady state heat conduction with convective boundary condition, and a constant potential difference between its inner and outer surfaces or combination of these loadings. All mechanical, thermal and piezoelectric properties except for the Poisson’s ratio are assumed to be power functions of the radial position. The governing equation in polarized form is shown to reduce to a system of second-order ordinary differential equation for the radial displacement. Considering six different sets of boundary conditions, this differential equation is analytically solved. The electro-thermo-mechanical stress and the electric potential distributions in the FGPM hollow shaft are discussed in detail for the piezoceramic PZT_5. The presented results indicate that the material in-homogeneity has a significant influence on the electro-thermo-mechanical behaviors of the FGPM rotating shaft and should therefore be considered in its optimum design.     

Homotopy Analysis Method for the heat transfer of a non-Newtonian fluid flow in an axisymmetric channel with a porous wall

In this article, a powerful analytical method, called the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) is introduced to obtain the exact solutions of heat transfer equation of a non-Newtonian fluid flow in an axisymmetric channel with a porous wall for turbine cooling applications. The HAM is employed to obtain the expressions for velocity and temperature fields. Tables are presented for various parameters on the velocity and temperature fields. These results are compared with the solutions which are obtained by Numerical Methods (NM). Also the convergence of the obtained HAM solution is discussed explicitly. These comparisons show that this analytical method is strongly powerful to solve nonlinear problems arising in heat transfer.     

Application of homotopy analysis method for natural convection of Darcian fluid about a vertical full cone embedded in pours media prescribed surface heat flux

In this paper, a powerful analytical method, called homotopy analysis method (HAM) is used to obtain the analytical solution for a nonlinear ordinary deferential equation that often appear in boundary layers problems arising in heat and mass transfer which these kinds of the equations contain infinity boundary condition. The boundary layer approximations of fluid flow and heat transfer of vertical full cone embedded in porous media give us the similarity solution for full cone subjected to surface heat flux boundary conditions. Nonlinear ODE which is obtained by similarity solution has been solved through homotopy analysis method (HAM). The main objective is to propose alternative methods of solution, which do not require small parameters and avoid linearization and physically unrealistic assumptions. The obtained analytical solution in comparison with the numerical ones represents a remarkable accuracy. The results also indicate that HAM can provide us with a convenient way to control and adjust the convergence region.     

New explicit approximate solution of MHD viscoelastic boundary layer flow over stretching sheet

In this paper, the study the momentum and heat transfer characteristics in an incompressible electrically conducting non‐Newtonian boundary layer flow of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet. The partial differential equations governing the flow and heat transfer characteristics are converted into highly nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations by similarity transformations. The resultant coupled highly nonlinear ordinary differential equations are solved by means of, homotopy analysis method (HAM) for constructing an approximate solution of heat transfer in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) viscoelastic boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet with non‐uniform heat source. The proposed method is a strong and easy to use analytic tool for nonlinear problems and does not need small parameters in the equations. The HAM solutions contain an auxiry parameter, which provides a convenient way of controlling the convergence region of series solutions. The results obtained here reveal that the proposed method is very effective and simple for solving nonlinear evolution equations. The method is straightforward and concise, and it can also be applied to other nonlinear evolution equations in physics. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Heat conduction through a rarefied gas between two rotating cylinders at small temperature difference

Summary Numerical calculations of heat transfer between two coaxial rotating cylinders at a small temperature difference are carried out over wide ranges of the Knudsen number and the angular velocity. The calculations have been performed based on the S-model of the Boltzmann equation by the discrete velocity method. It has been confirmed that in a rotating gas a radial temperature gradient causes both radial and tangential heat fluxes. Also, it has been found that the radial heat flux is affected by the rotation.On temporary leave from Department of Physics, Urals State University, 620083 Ekaterinburg, Russia.     

Mixed convection in the stagnation-point flow of a Maxwell fluid towards a vertical stretching surface

In the present analysis, we study the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow of an incompressible Maxwell fluid near the two-dimensional stagnation-point flow over a vertical stretching surface. It is assumed that the stretching velocity and the surface temperature vary linearly with the distance from the stagnation-point. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations have been reduced to the coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations by the similarity transformations. Analytical and numerical solutions of the derived system of equations are developed. The homotopy analysis method (HAM) and finite difference scheme are employed in constructing the analytical and numerical solutions, respectively. Comparison between the analytical and numerical solutions is given and found to be in excellent agreement. Both cases of assisting and opposing flows are considered. The influence of the various interesting parameters on the flow and heat transfer is analyzed and discussed through graphs in detail. The values of the local Nusselt number for different physical parameters are also tabulated. Comparison of the present results with known numerical results of viscous fluid is shown and a good agreement is observed.     

Multi-objective optimization of pin fin to determine the optimal fin geometry using genetic algorithm

In this study, one dimensional heat transfer in a pin fin is modeled and optimized. We used Bezier curves to determine the best geometry of the fin. The model equations are solved to analyze the heat transfer. Total heat transfer rate and fin efficiency factor are considered as two objective functions and multi-objective optimization carried out to maximize heat transfer rate and fin efficiency simultaneously. Fast and elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is used to determine a set of multiple optimum solutions, called ‘Pareto optimal solutions. The optimized results are presented with Pareto front which demonstrate conflict between two objective functions in the optimized point, both energy conservation and thermal analysis are carried out to verify the solution method and the results shows good precision.     

热特性参数可变时抛物线型截面环肋传热的最优化研究

肋片传热的最优化的传统处理方法是当执行一定的传热任务时,具有最少的肋片材料消耗(投资).最少重量的冷却肋片是具有抛物线型的截面.本文应用不变嵌入原理研究了当热特性参数可变时抛物线型截面环肋传热的最优几何尺寸,同时还对两个主要的物理参数,即导热系数变化参数α和放热系数变化指数m对最优几何尺寸的影响进行研究.所得结果对工程设计具有现实指导意义.     

Elastic-plastic states of a rotating inhomogeneously heated strain hardening hollow shaft

Based on Tresca's yield criterion and the flow rule associated with it, the behaviour of a linearly strain-hardening elastic-plastic hollow shaft subject to a positive radial temperature gradient and monotonously increasing angular speed is studied. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Series solutions for unsteady laminar MHD flow near forward stagnation point of an impulsively rotating and translating sphere in presence of buoyancy forces

The similarity solution for the unsteady laminar incompressible boundary layer flow of a viscous electrically conducting fluid in stagnation point region of an impulsively rotating and translating sphere with a magnetic field and a buoyancy force gives a system of non-linear partial differential equations. These non-linear differential equations are analytically solved by applying a newly developed method, namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The analytic solutions of the system of non-linear differential equations are constructed in the series form. The convergence of the obtained series solutions is carefully analyzed. Graphical results are presented to investigate the influence of the magnetic parameter, buoyancy parameter and rotation parameter on the surface shear stresses and surface heat transfer. It is noted that the behavior of the HAM solution for the surface shear stresses and surface heat transfer is in good agreement with the numerical solution given in reference [H. S. Takhar, A. J. Chamkha, G. Nath, Unsteady laminar MHD flow and heat transfer in the stagnation region of an impulsively spinning and translating sphere in the presence of buoyancy forces, Heat Mass Transfer 37 (2001) 397].