Boundary treatment effects on molecular dynamics simulations of interface thermal resistance

Molecular Dynamics simulations of heat conduction in liquid Argon confined in Silver nano-channels are performed subject to three different thermal conditions. Particularly, different surface temperatures are imposed on Silver domains using a thermostat in all and limited number of solid layers, resulting in heat flux in the liquid domain. Alternatively, energy is injected and extracted from solid layers to create a NVE liquid Argon system, which corresponds to heat flux specification. Imposition of a constant temperature region in the solid domain results in an unphysical temperature jump, indicating the presence of an artificial thermal resistance induced by the thermostat. Thermal resistance analyses for the components of each case are performed to distinguish the artificial and interface thermal resistance effects. Constant wall temperature simulations are shown to exhibit superposition of the artificial and interface thermal resistance values at the liquid/solid interface, while applying thermostat on wall layers sufficiently away from the liquid/solid interface results in consistent predictions of the interface thermal resistance. Injecting and extracting energy from each solid layer eliminates the artificial resistance. However, the method cannot directly specify a desired temperature difference between the two solid domains.     

Boiler fuel savings by heat recovery and reduced standby losses

This paper is concerned with an investigation into the fuel savings that can be achieved in a fuel-fired package boiler by the use of an economiser which incorporates a flue damper, linked via a controller, to the burner. The fuel savings are accomplished by two means.

• 1.1. By direct heat recovery from the flue gases leaving the boiler and
• 2.2. By a reduction in boiler draught and cooling losses by closing the flue damper which is activated on burner shut down. These losses occur during normal burner cycling and standby periods.

Experimental heat recovery data were obtained from a hot gas boiler simulation test rig, and shown to be dependent on the exhaust temperature, excess air level and boiler size. Standby savings were predicted from a boiler cooling model, based on measured boiler cooling rates and draught conditions. Details of the cooling model are given in the paper. The standby savings were found to depend on boiler operating time, the number of burner cycles during boiler operation and the boiler cooling rate time constant, burner purge time and flue gas damper delay time. Overall the fuel savings that can be achieved were found to be in the range 6–16% depending on the operating conditions prevailing, and additional tests on boilers confirmed these findings.     

DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION IN A SEMICIRCULAR SLICE WITH INTERNAL HEAT GENERATION IN ONE OR BOTH LAYERS

Experiments were performed on convection in a two-layer, stably stratified pool, in the SIMECO experimental facility: a semicircular slice vessel, with internal heat generation in one or both layers. The objective was to study the effect of stratification on the heat transfer to the boundaries of the pool. Effects of miscibility or immiscibilty of the layers and the density difference between the layers were investigated. The stratification with miscible fluids was established using salt water and pure water and that for immiscible fluids was established using pure water and paraffin oil. The concentration of salt in the upper layer was measured using a conductivity probe. The results show that the presence of an interface significantly changes the heat flux distribution along the downward/sideward (semicircular) boundary, decreasing the ratio of up/down heat fluxes by a factor of 4. The mixing of the interface, when both the layers are internally heated, is complete only when Ri h 5. The mixing times for the two layers, when only the lower layer is internally heated are correlated by a simple relation between the fluid parameters and the heat input.     

非线性二极管系统构成的不可逆热机性能特征分析

研究了一个非线性二极管系统构成的不可逆热机的性能,它是由分别处于两个温度不同的热库中,完全相同的两个非线性二极管反向连接后并联上一个电容器组成的.运用非线性系统涨落理论计算出从两个热库中吸收的热流,考虑热漏损失后得出热机的功率和效率.通过数值模拟可以绘出热机的性能特征曲线以及优化性能参数随两热库温度比等主要参量的特征曲线.分析了二极管的非线性强度、热漏损失和温度比对热机性能特性的影响.最后,讨论了理想二极管热机的性能特征.     

W/Fe/CuCrZr热等静压模块组织及性能分析

为实现面向等离子体材料钨(W)和热沉材料铜铬镐(CuCrZr)合金的可靠连接,对纯铁(Fe)作为W/CuCrZr合金热等静压连接中间层的可行性进行了探索性研究.在850℃/150MPa/135min的热等静压参数下制作了W/Fe/CuCrZr合金的实验模块,分别对连接界面进行了焊接界面、微观形貌、组织成分及剪切力学性能...     

Heat and mass transfer at gas-phase ignition of grinded coal layer by several metal particles heated to a high temperature

Characteristics of gas-phase ignition of grinded brown coal (brand 2B, Shive-Ovoos deposit in Mongolia) layer by single and several metal particles heated to a high temperature (above 1000 K) have been investigated numerically. The developed mathematical model of the process takes into account the heating and thermal decomposition of coal at the expense of the heat supplied from local heat sources, release of volatiles, formation and heating of gas mixture and its ignition. The conditions of the joint effect of several hot particles on the main characteristic of the process–ignition delay time are determined. The relation of the ignition zone position in the vicinity of local heat sources and the intensity of combustible gas mixture warming has been elucidated. It has been found that when the distance between neighboring particles exceeds 1.5 hot particle size, an analysis of characteristics and regularities of coal ignition by several local heat sources can be carried out within the framework of the model of “single metal particle / grinded coal / air”. Besides, it has been shown with the use of this model that the increase in the hot particle height leads, along with the ignition delay time reduction, to a reduction of the source initial temperatures required for solid fuel ignition. At an imperfect thermal contact at the interface hot particle / grinded coal due to the natural porosity of the solid fuel structure, the intensity of ignition reduces due to a less significant effect of radiation in the area of pores on the heat transfer conditions compared to heat transfer by conduction in the near-surface coal layer without regard to its heterogeneous structure.     

Heat transfer characteristics of a porous radiant burner under the influence of a 2-D radiation field

This paper deals with the heat transfer analysis of a 2-D rectangular porous radiant burner. Combustion in the porous medium is modelled as a spatially dependent heat generation zone. The gas and the solid phases are considered in non-local thermal equilibrium, and separate energy equations are used for the two phases. The solid phase is assumed to be absorbing, emitting and scattering, while the gas phase is considered transparent to radiation. The radiative part of the energy equation is solved using the collapsed dimension method. The alternating direction implicit scheme is used to solve the transient 2-D energy equations. Effects of various parameters on the performance of the burner are studied.     

The effects of oxygen concentration and gas temperature on coal stream ignition and particle surface temperature in reducing-to-oxidizing environments

In the near-burner region of pulverized coal burners, two zones exist, with very different oxygen concentrations. The first zone is a locally reducing environment, caused by the fast release of volatiles from a region of dense coal particles, and the second zone, which is surrounding the first zone, is a hot oxidizing environment. The transition of coal particles from the reducing zone to the oxidizing zone affects early stage coal combustion characteristics, such as devolatilization, ignition and particle temperature history. In this work, we used a two-stage Hencken flat-flame burner to simulate the conditions that coal particles experience in practical combustors when they transition from a reducing environment to an oxidizing environments. The composition of the reducing environment was chosen to approximate that of a typical coal volatile. Three oxygen concentrations (5, 10 and 15 vol%) in the “ambient” oxidizing environment were tested, corresponding to those at different distances downstream from a commercial burner. The corresponding gas temperatures for the oxidizing environments were adjusted for the different oxygen concentrations such that the “volatile” flame temperatures were the same, as this is what would be expected in a commercial combustor. High speed videography was used to obtain the ignition characteristics, and RGB color pyrometry was used to measure particle surface temperatures. Two different sizes of coal particles were used. It is found that when particles undergo a reducing-to-oxidizing transition at high temperatures, the particles are preheated such that the critical factor for ignition delay is point at which the particle is in the presence of oxygen, not the concentration of oxygen. The ignition delay of large particles is found to be 53% longer than that of small particles due to their higher thermal mass and slower devolatilization. The oxygen concentration in the ambient have a negligible effect on early-stage particle temperatures.     

非对称纳米通道内流体流动与传热的分子动力学

采用分子动力学方法研究了流体在非对称浸润性粗糙纳米通道内的流动与传热过程,分析了两侧壁面浸润性不对称对流体速度滑移和温度阶跃的影响,以及非对称浸润性组合对流体内部热量传递的影响.研究结果表明,纳米通道主流区域的流体速度在外力作用下呈抛物线分布,但是纳米通道上下壁面浸润性不对称导致速度分布不呈中心对称,同时通道壁面的纳米结构也会限制流体的流动.流体在流动过程中产生黏性耗散,使流体温度升高.增强冷壁面的疏水性对近热壁面区域的流体速度几乎没有影响,滑移速度和滑移长度基本不变,始终为锁定边界,但是会导致近冷壁面区域的流体速度逐渐增大,对应的滑移速度和滑移长度随之增大.此时,近冷壁面区域的流体温度逐渐超过近热壁面区域的流体温度,流体出现反转温度分布,流体内部热流逆向传递.随着两侧壁面浸润性不对称程度增加,流体反转温度分布更加明显.     

冲击压缩后热传导的理论研究

 冲击压缩后的界面温度和界面附近的温度历史用Cattaneo热传导理论作了计算，并与Fourier热传导理论的结果作了比较。分析了热弛豫时间常数对界面温度的影响。     

NATURAL CONVECTION IN ROTATING DRUMS WITH INNER SURFACE HEATING

Two flow visualisation techniques, microencapsulated liquid crystal and tracer methods, are employed to observe the thermal and fluid flow fields, respectively, in a liquid that is enclosed in a rotating drum with inner surface heating. The flow patterns and temperature distribution thus obtained are correlated to determine the conditions for formation of thermally stratified layers. A method is developed to construct a three-dimensional structure of a hot plume ascending from the heating surface by synthesizing three flow structures on three mutually perpendicular cross sections (x-y, y-z, and z-x planes) obtained by the flow visualization technique. The method may be extended to obtain the real-time imaging of a three-dimensional hot plume. A combination of the results from the two tests on the heat and fluid flow fields opens a new dimension in the study of natural convection in a rotating system. Additionally, the temperature-time history inside the Eckman boundary layers is monitored to aid in the understanding of transient thermal behavior and rotational effects on the Eckman boundary layers. The conditions for the incipience of thermally stratified layers are disclosed.     

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of miscible ferrofluids

We study the stability of an interface between two inviscid magnetic fluids of different densities flowing parallel to each other in an oscillatory manner. The system is pervaded by a uniform oblique magnetic field distribution. The analysis allows for mass and heat transfer across the interface. A general eigenvalue relation is derived and discussed analytically. The classical stability criterion is found to be substantially modified due to the effect of the oblique magnetic field with mass and heat transfer. Some previous studies are reported for appropriate data choices. The longitudinal magnetic field has a strong stabilizing influence on all wavelengths, which can be used to suppress the destabilizing influence of the mass and heat transfer. We conclude with a discussion of the stability of unsteady shear layers on the basis of the results. The parametric excitation of the surface waves is analyzed by means of the multiple-time-scales method. The transition curves are obtained analytically.     

The effect of anisotropies on the transition temperature in a spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 bilayer system with disordered interfaces

Transition temperatures of a bilayer system with A₂ (A_pB_1−p)₁ (B)₂ consisting periodically of two layers of spin-1/2 A atoms, two layers of spin-3/2 B atoms and an interface with alloying-type (A_pB_1−p) disorder are examined by the use of the effective-field theory superior to the standard mean-field theory. In particular, the effects of different single-ion anisotropies in the bulk B layers and disordered interfaces on the transition temperature are clarified. Some interesting behaviours are obtained, depending on the values of anisotropies and exchange interactions in the disordered interfaces and bulk layers.     

EFFECT OF FLAME SUPPORT LAYER GEOMETRY AND MATERIALS ON THE RADIANT EFFICIENCY OF GAS RADIANT BURNERS

Parallel rods / tubes flame support layers were used to study variations in geometry and materials on radiant burner performance. An increased density of rods increased the efficiency, as more surface area was provided to extract the heat of combustion. This effect was attenuated far fraction closed areas above 0·33 because of increased interference of direct base-to-load radiation. Thinner rods (with fraction closed area constant), having a lower thermal conduction resistance, fostered higher efficiency. Greater distances between the base and rods decreased efficiency due to air entrainment. This functioned to cool the base, increasing the range of combustion intensities where a portion of combustion lifted from the burner base. Isolation of radiating materials from conducting to the burner housing resulted in a ～ 5% upward shift in efficiency. Low to high efficiency was measured for alumina, mullite, and oxidized stainless steel rods, respectively; this was related directly to the emittances of the materials used. SiC and MoSi₂ coatings on alumina rods resulted in burners which were as efficient as one with stainless steel rods. A burner designed as a restricted band spectral emitter was not as efficient in its high-emission range as a more graybody emitter under the same combustion intensity; the higher-temperature spectral emitter discouraged extraction of sensible heat from the combustion product stream.     

Experimental low-stretch gaseous diffusion flames in buoyancy-induced flowfields

The present study experimentally investigates the structure and instabilities associated with extremely low-stretch (1 s⁻¹) gaseous diffusion flames. Ultra-low-stretch flames are established in normal gravity by bottom burning of a methane/nitrogen mixture discharged from a porous spherically symmetric burner of large radius of curvature. OH-PLIF and IR imaging techniques are used to characterize the reaction zone and the burner surface temperature, respectively. A flame stability diagram mapping the response of the ultra-low-stretch diffusion flame to varying fuel injection rate and nitrogen dilution is explored. In this diagram, two main boundaries are identified. These boundaries separate the stability diagram into three regions: sooting flame, non-sooting flame, and extinction. Two distinct extinction mechanisms are noted. For low fuel injection rates, flame extinction is caused by heat loss to the burner surface. For relatively high injection rates, at which the heat loss to burner surface is negligible, flame radiative heat loss is the dominant extinction mechanism. There also exists a critical inert dilution level beyond which the flame cannot be sustained. The existence of multi-dimensional flame phenomena near the extinction limits is also identified. Various multi-dimensional flame patterns are observed, and their evolutions are studied using direct chemiluminescence and OH-PLIF imaging. The results demonstrate the usefulness of the present burner configuration for the study of low-stretch gaseous diffusion flames.     

Combustion dynamics of inverted conical flames

An inverted conical flame anchored on a central bluff-body in an unconfined burner configuration features a distinctive acoustic response. This configuration typifies more complex situations in which the thermo-acoustic instability is driven by the interaction of a flame with a convective vorticity mode. The axisymmetric geometry investigated in this article features a shear region between the reactive jet and the surrounding atmosphere. It exhibits self-sustained oscillations for certain operating conditions involving a powerful flame collapse phenomenon with sudden annihilation of flame surface area. This is caused by a strong interaction between the flame and vortices created in the outer jet shear layer, a process which determines the amplitude of heat release fluctuation and its time delay with respect to incident velocity perturbations. This process also generates an acoustic field that excites the burner and synchronizes the vortex shedding mechanism. The transfer functions between the velocity signal at the burner outlet and heat release are obtained experimentally for a set of flow velocities fluctuations levels. It is found that heat release fluctuations are a strong function of the incoming velocity perturbation amplitude and that the time delay between these two quantities is mainly determined by the convection of the large scale vortices formed in the jet shear layer. A model is formulated, which suitably describes the observed instabilities.     

Influence of Burner Geometry on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Methane/Air Flame Impinging on Flat Surface

An experimental study has been conducted to find the heat transfer characteristics of methane/air flames impinging normally to a flat surface using different burner geometries. The burners used were of nozzle, tube, and orifice type each with a diameter of 10 mm. Due to different exit velocity profiles, the flame structures were different in each case. Because of nearly flat velocity profile, the flame spread was more in case of orifice and nozzle burners as compared to tube burner. Effects of varying the value of Reynolds number (600–2500), equivalence ratio (0.8–1.5) and dimensionless separation distance (0.7–8) on heat transfer characteristics on the flat plate have been investigated for the tube burner. Different flame shapes were observed for different impingement conditions. It has been observed that the heat transfer characteristics were intimately related to flame shapes. Heat transfer characteristics were discussed for the cases when the flame inner reaction cone was far away, just touched, and was intercepted by the plate. Negative heat fluxes at the stagnation point were observed when the inner reaction cone was intercepted by the plate due to impingement of cool un-burnt mixture directly on the surface. Different heat transfer characteristics were observed for different burner geometries with similar operating conditions. In case of tube burner, the maximum heat flux is around the stagnation point and decay is faster in the radial direction. In case of nozzle and orifice burner, the heat transfer distribution is more uniform over the surface.     

Thermal tests of a pulse-detonation high-speed burner

The steady-state temperatures of the elements of a high-speed pulse-detonation burner (HSPDB) running on a natural gas-air mixture were measured in the course of long-term tests of the burner operating in the pulse-detonation mode without forced cooling at a frequency of 2 Hz. Knowledge of the steady-state temperatures is required for the development of an energy-efficient forced cooling system for the HSPDB. The experiments have shown that the maximum steady-state temperature (～500°C) is reached after approximately 200 s of operation at internal elements of the HSPDB, more specifically, turbulizing obstacles placed in that part of the burner duct through which the detonation wave travels periodically. The HSPDB wall in this part of the burner duct is heated to 420°C within ～1000 s. In the part of the burner duct through which the deflagration wave travels periodically, the HSPDB walls and internal elements are heated to a steady-state temperature not exceeding 330°C. The results show that the forced cooling of the HSPDB is generally required only for those parts of the burner duct through which the detonation wave passes periodically.     

Overheating or overcooling of electrons in a metal because of the effect of an interface with an insulator

It has been shown that the temperatures of electrons and phonons are different at a heat flow through a metal-insulator interface. This effect leads to an additional contribution to the Kapitza thermal resistance because electrons transferring heat in the metal do not transfer it through the interface, but are rather involved in heat transfer only at a certain distance from it. Consequently, heat transfer near the interface is less efficient. The effect is independent of the insulator adjacent to the metal. An exact solution has been obtained in a linear approximation. The results explain the qualitative difference of predictions of previously accepted models from experimental data in the case of large transmission coefficients of phonons through the interface.     

Combustion Wave Stability in Transition through the Interface of Gasless Systems

In this paper, using mathematical modeling, we study combustion wave stability in transition through the interface of gasless systems. The effect of a gas layer separating two chemically active gasless layers on the combustion wave stability was studied at all stages of the transition. Using the criteria obtained, we estimate the stability conditions of the transition combustion wave. The nonstationary dynamics of the combustion wave transition through the gas gap is studied with allowance for competing mechanisms of heat transfer, such as conductive and radiant transfer. We analyze the effect of radiation heat transfer in the gas gap on the characteristics and stability of the transient combustion process. The failure region of the igniter combustion wave is determined through the approach to the ignition system, while estimates of temperature and heat flux at the interface of the systems are given with respect to the time of the igniter combustion completion under conditions of dominant conductive and radiant heat transfer.