LuckyTran |
December 21, 2021 13:43 |
This entire thread is whack.
The bulk temperature is the mixed temperature at each location. It is not the average of the inlet and outlet. It is the temperature the flow would have if you magically somehow mixed all of it together. The inlet has an inlet bulk temperature. The outlet has an outlet bulk temperature. Everywhere, has a bulk temperature.
For internal heat transfer, the bulk temperature is commonly used as the reference temperature for the heat transfer coefficient but also for all the fluid properties. Some people are too lazy, or they just don't have the skill to calculate the bulk temperature and they will use the average of the inlet and outlet instead as a very crude approximation.
The wall temperature should not be used for the reference temperature, that would just make the heat transfer coefficient undefined because htc=q"/0.
Wall temperature you get from Fluent.
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