The influence of thermal boundary conditions on turbulent forced convection pipe flow at two Prandtl numbers
Straub S, Forooghi P, Marocco L, Wetzel T, Vinuesa R, Schlatter P, Frohnapfel B (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
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Book Volume: 144
Article Number: 118601
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118601
Abstract
Different types of thermal boundary conditions are conceivable in numerical simulations of convective heat transfer problems. Isoflux, isothermal and a mixed-type boundary condition are compared by means of direct numerical simulations (for the lowest Reynolds number) and well-resolved large-eddy simulations of a turbulent forced convection pipe flow over a range of bulk Reynolds numbers from Reb=5300 to Reb=37700, at two Prandtl numbers, i.e. Pr=0.71 and Pr=0.025. It is found that, while for Pr=0.71 the Nusselt number is hardly affected by the type of thermal boundary condition, for Pr=0.025 the isothermal boundary condition yields ≈20% lower Nusselt numbers compared to isoflux and mixed-type over the whole range of Reynolds numbers. A decomposition of the Nusselt number is derived. In particular, we decompose it into four contributions: laminar, radial and streamwise turbulent heat flux as well as a contribution due to the turbulent velocity field. For Pr=0.71 the contribution due to the radial turbulent heat flux is dominant, whereas for Pr=0.025 the contribution due to the turbulent velocity field is dominant. Only at a moderately high Reynolds number, such as Reb=37700, both turbulent contributions are of similar magnitude. A comparison of first- and second-order thermal statistics between the different types of thermal boundary conditions shows that the statistics are not only influenced in the near-wall region but also in the core region of the flow. Power spectral densities illustrate large thermal structures in low-Prandtl-number fluids as well as thermal structures located right at the wall, only present for the isoflux boundary condition. A database including the first- and second-order statistics together with individual contributions to the budget equations of the temperature variance and turbulent heat fluxes is hosted in the open access repository KITopen (DOI:https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000096346).
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APA:
Straub, S., Forooghi, P., Marocco, L., Wetzel, T., Vinuesa, R., Schlatter, P., & Frohnapfel, B. (2019). The influence of thermal boundary conditions on turbulent forced convection pipe flow at two Prandtl numbers. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118601
MLA:
Straub, Steffen, et al. "The influence of thermal boundary conditions on turbulent forced convection pipe flow at two Prandtl numbers." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 144 (2019).
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