The contemporary conjugate heat transfer model was developed after computers came into wide use in order to substitute the empirical relation of proportionality of heat flux to temperature difference with heat transfer coefficient which was the only tool in theoretical heat convection since the times of Newton. This model, based on a strictly mathematically-stated problem, describes the heat transfer between a body and a fluid flowing over or inside it as a result of the interaction of two objects. The physical processes and solutions of the governing equations are considered separately for each object in two subdomains. Matching conditions for these solutions at the interface provide the distributions of temperature and heat flux along the body/flow interface, eliminating the need for a heat transfer coefficient. Moreover, it may be calculated using these data.
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History
The term conjugate problem was coined by a group of scientists led by the academician A. V. Luikov in the former Soviet Union [1,2] who, among others in the 1960s, began to investigate heat transfer as a coupled problem. At that time, many other researchers (for example, [3-8]) started to solve simple problems using different approaches and joining the solutions for body and fluid on their interface. A review of early conjugate solutions may be found in the book [9].
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Conjugate problem formulation
The Conjugate convective heat transfer problem is governed by the set of equations consisting in conformity with physical pattern of two separate systems for body and fluid domains which incorporate the following equations:
Body domain
Unsteady or steady (Laplace or Poisson) two-or three-dimensional conduction equations or simplified one-dimensional equations for thin bodies
Fluid domain
- For laminar flow: Navier-Stokes and energy equations or simplified equations: boundary layer for large and creeping for small Reynolds numbers, respectively.
- For turbulent flow: Reynolds average Navier-Stokes and energy equations or boundary layer equations for large Reynolds numbers
Initial, boundary and conjugate conditions
- Conditions specifying the spatial distributions of variables for dynamic and thermal equations at initial time
- No-slip condition on the body and other usual conditions for dynamic equations
- Conditions of the first or the second kind specifying temperature or heat flux distribution on the domain boundaries
- Conjugate conditions on the body/fluid interface providing continuity of the thermal fields by specifying the equalities of temperatures and heat fluxes of a body and a flow at the vicinity of interface:T(+)=T(-),q(+)=q(-).
Methods of conjugation body-fluid separation solutions
Numerical methods
One simple way to realize conjugation is to apply the iterations. The idea of this approach is that each solution for the body or for the fluid produces a boundary condition for other components of the system. The process starts by assuming that one of conjugate conditions exists on the interface. Then, one solves the problem for body or for fluid applying the guessing boundary condition and uses the result as a boundary condition for solving a set of equations for another component, and so on. If this process converges, the desired accuracy may be achieved. However, the rate of convergence highly depends on the first guessing condition, and there is no way to find a proper one, except through trial and error.
Another numerical conjugate procedure is grounded on the simultaneous solution of a large set of governing equations for both subdomains and conjugate conditions. Patankar [10] proposed a method and software for such solutions using one generalized expression for continuously computing the velocities and temperature fields through the whole problem domain while satisfying the conjugate boundary conditions.
Analytical reducing to conduction problem
As shown in [9], the well-known Duhamel's integral for heat flux on a plate with arbitrary variable temperature is a sum of series of consequent temperature derivatives. This series in fact is a general boundary condition which becomes a condition of the third kind in the first approximation. Each of those two expressions in the form of Duhamel's integral or in a series of derivatives reduces a conjugate problem to the solution of only the conduction equation for the body at given conjugate conditions. An example of an early conjugate problem solution using Duhamel's integral has been performed[8]. In [9] this approach has been applied both in integral and in series forms and is generalized for laminar and turbulent flows with pressure gradient, for flows at wide range of Prandtl and Reynolds numbers, for compressible flow, for power-law non-Newtonian fluids, for flows with unsteady temperature variations and some other more specific cases.
Applications
Starting from simple examples in the 1960s, the conjugate heat transfer methods have become a more powerful tool for modeling and investigating nature phenomena and engineering systems in different areas ranging from aerospace and nuclear reactors to thermal goods treatment and food processing, from complex procedures in medicine to atmosphere/ocean thermal interaction in meteorology, and from relatively simple units to multistage, nonlinear processes. A detailed review of more than 100 examples of conjugate modeling selected from a list of 200 early and modern publications considered in book [9] shows that conjugate methods is now used extensively in a wide range of applications. That also is confirmed by numerous results published after this book appearance (2009) that one may see, for example, at the Web of Science. The applications in specific areas of conjugate heat transfer at periodic boundary conditions and in exchanger ducts are considered in books [11] and [12], respectively.
References
[1] Perelman, T. L., On conjugated problems of heat transfer, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 3: 293-303, 1961.
[2] Luikov, A. V., Perelman, T. L., Levitin, R. S., and Gdalevich, L. B., Heat transfer from a plate in a compressible gas flow, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 13: 1261-1270, 1971
[3] Siegel, R., and Perlmutter, M., Laminar heat transfer in a channel with unsteady flow and heating varying with position and time, ASME J. Heat Transfer 85: 358-365, 1963
[4] Chambre, P. L., Theoretical analysis of the transient heat transfer into fluid flowing over a flat plate containing internal source, in Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Education, edited by H. A. Johnson, pp59-69, McGraw-Hill, New York,1964
[5] Soliman, M., and Johnson, H. A., Transient heat transfer from turbulent flow over a flat of appreciable thermal capacity and containing time-dependent heat source, ASME J. Heat Transfer 89: 362-370, 1967
[6] Sparrow, E. M., and De Farias, F. N., Unsteady heat transfer in ducts with time varying inlet temperature and participating walls, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 11: 837-853, 1968
[7] Dorfman, A. S., Heat transfer from liquid to liquid in a flow past two sides of a plate, High Temperature 8: 515-520, 1970
[8] Viskanta, R., and Abrams, M., Thermal interaction of two streams in boundary layer Flow separated by a plate, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 14: 1311-1321, 1971
[9] Dorfman, A. S., 2009, Conjugate Problems in Convective Heat Transfer CRC Press Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton
[10] Patankar, S. V., 1980, Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow. Taylor & Francis.
[11] Zudin, Y. B., 2011, Theory of Periodic Conjugate Heat Transfer, Springer.
[12] Zhang, Li-Zhi, 2013, Conjugate Heat and Mass Transfer in Heat Mass Exchanger Ducts, Academic Press inc.
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