heat loss through wall : how to?
Dear OFoamers,
I'm trying to simulate a premixed mathane combustion in a cylindrical burner with XiFoam with OF 2.1.1. My chamber is a cylindre and I suppose the flow to be axisymmetric so I sat the geometry as a 2-D case with only a wedge of a cylindre. Now I'd like to take into account the heat loss through the wall. Could you please tell me what is the best way to do that? I hesitate between : 1. wallHeatTransfer Tinf 293 K alphaWall = 26 W/mK (it is sainless steel) value uniform 293 K 2. set a fixedGradient gradient uniform dTdr where dT/dr = Q/(A*k) with Q the heat flux, A the surface of the exchange between gas and water and k = alphaWall, the thermal conductivity . 3. other any better suggestion? Thank in advance Cam |
I would prefer wallHeatTransfer over fixedGradient. I also had to choose between the two. If I remember correctly while monitoring the heat flux over the boundary the wallHeatFlux was correct from the beginning but for the fixedGradient it took some time/iterations for the boundary condition to be obeyed. In my case this was externalWallHeatFlux vs. fixedGradient.
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Well thank you for your response . I'll try this. Could you tell me what's the difference between wallHeatTransfer and externalWallHeatTransfer?
which one do I have to use in my case? it's to take into account the non adiabaticity of the burner. Are the next values correct? Tinf uniform 293; alphaWall uniform 26; value uniform 293 ; I don't understand what is the difference between Tinf and value? (whereas both seems to be required) |
I've just tried this and it does not seems to works I have many errors.. Maybe my other boundaries conditions aren't well defined?
first I have error such that the T is out of bound for the use of the JANAF coefficient : Quote:
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My BC are the next ones : for pressure : zeroGradient everywhere but at the internalField 1e5 for velocity U : - inlet : turbulentInlet 3 m/s - outlet :inletOutlet 0 0 0 - walls : fixedValue 0 0 0 for temperaure T : - inlet : fixedValue uniform 293 - outlet : type inletOutlet; inletValue uniform 293; value uniform 293; - walls : wallHeatTransfer as describe previously Well I would be grateful if someone could help me with that issue.. Thanks Cam |
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For wallHeatTransfer you need to specify Tinf which is the wall temperature and alphaWall which is the thermal diffusivity. I think value is the initial temperature at the wall. So your alphaWall is probably wrong as the thermal diffusivity is defined as thermal conductivity / density / heat capacity [1] http://foam.sourceforge.net/docs/cpp/a02489.html |
ah ok and I m telling it the conductivity and not diffusivity
so for stainless steel I should put 4e-6 ?? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_diffusivity) Quote:
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Thank you for your advices. But I have some trouble to understand the source code :-/ |
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[1] http://foam.sourceforge.net/docs/cpp...9.html#details |
Dear Billie (or Daniel, as you prefer?)
Thank you again for your response. I don't see any value required in the documentation as OpenFoam 2.1.1 asks me on my computer. Quote:
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#include "wallHeatTransferFvPatchScalarField.H" how can I know in which part of the code it is running? ie : Code:
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Dear Daniel and other OpenFoamers,
I m asking myself another question about the wallHeatTransfer boundary condition. The burner I try to modelise is surrounded by an exchanger with water. since the heat transmitted to the wall and then to the water comes from the burnt specied (exhaust gas) shouldnt' I use the alpha of the species and not of the wall ? Cam |
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[1] http://www.tufts.edu/as/tampl/en43/lecture_notes/ch4.html |
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