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TRANSIENT CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER IN A THICK-


WALLED PIPE WITH DEVELOPING LAMINAR FLOW
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D. J. Schutte , M. M. Rahman & A. Faghri
a
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TRANSIENT CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER


IN A THICK-WALLED PIPE WITH DEVELOPING
LAMINAR FLOW

D. J. Schutte, M. M. Rahman, and A. Faghri


Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Might State University,
Dayton, Ohio 45435
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The tmnsient behavior of the flow ond temperature fields in a thick-walled pipe was
analyzed by simultaneously solving for conduction in the pipe wail and for convection in
the fluid stream. l b o different tmnsient situations were considered: the rmnsienl heat
transfer in steady, developing pipe flow, and the simultaneous tmnsient development of
flow and heating in a pipe. In each case, a pammetric study war done to understand the
effects of ratio of wall thickness to inner diameter, Pkclet number, mtio of wall to fluid
thennal conductivities, and mtio of wall to fluid thennal diffusivities. All these pammeten
were found to signijkantIy influence the duration of the tmnsient as well as the distribu-
tions of Nusselt number, interfacial temperature, bulk tempemhire, and interfacial heat
flux during the tmnsient pmcesses.

INTRODUCTION
A knowledge of unsteady conjugate heat transfer during startup or shutdown, or
during a change in the operating conditions, is important for proper thermal control of
heat exchange devices. In this study, the transient conjugate heat transfer characteristics
of a thick-walled pipe were examined. The results of this study, which show the effects
of different parameters on transient conjugate heat transfer, are expected to be extremely
useful in designing heat exchangers, where transient flow and heating situations are
frequently encountered.
Luikov et al. [I] used a Fourier transformation to analyze the effects of the ther-
mophysical properties of the wall material on heat transfer inside a pipe with fully
developed flow and a constant temperature prescribed at the outer surface of the pipe.
Patankar [2] numerically investigated the same case using the harmonic mean of the
thermal conductivity of the wall and fluid at the interface. It was shown that the har-
monic mean is more accurate and correctly accounts for the temperature and heat flux
continuity when solving for the heat transfer in regions with nonuniform thermal con-
ductivities.
Steady conjugate heat transfer has been analytically and numerically investigated
by several other investigators [3-61, who assumed either a fully developed pipe flow or
slug flow to simplify the equations. Conjugate heat transfer in a developing pipe flow
was numerically investigated by Faghri et al. [7], where blowing and suction at the inner

Funding for this work was provided by a joint effon of the NASA Lewis Research Center and the
Thermal Energy Group of the Aero Propulsion Laboratory of the United States Air Force under contract
F33615-89-C-2820.

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164 D.J. SCHUTl'E ET AL.

I A
NOMENCLATURE
wall-to-fluid thermal diffusivity ratio (-a,/ dimensionless velocity in the z direction
I
A,
'4
cross-sectional area of the pipe, m2
-
( wlwi")
axial coordinate, m
C, specific heat at constant pressure, ]/kg K
Fo Fourier number (-aft/<) -
dimensionless axial coordinate (-z/2ri Pe)
thermal diffusivity, m2/s ( klpCp)
k thermal conductivity, W/m K
K wall-to-fluid thermal conductivity ratio ( - k,l
ki)
-
ratio of wall thickness to inner diameter
[ (ro - ri)/2ri]
-
dimensionless bulk temperature [ (Tb -
L pipe length, m Tio)/(qori/ki)l
L* dimensionless heated length ( - L/2ri Pe) dimensionless interfacial temperature
- - -
1 (T - Ti,,)/(qori/ki)1
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Nu local Nusselt number [ (2riqilki)l(Ti


Tb)l kinematic viscosity, mZ/s
D oressure. ~ / m ' densitv. -
.. ke/m3
Subscripts
b bulk (fluid)
q* dimensionless interfacial heat flux (-qi/q,) fluid
r radial coordinate, m harmonic mean
r*
Re Reynolds number ( - 2ri widvi)
-
dimensionless radial coordinate ( r/ri) inner pipe wall
inlet
1 time, s mean
T temperature, K outer pipe wall
u velocity in the r direction, mls solid wall
w velocity in the z direction, mls steady state

pipe wall were considered to simulate evaporation and condensation in heat pipes. A
constant heat flux was applied at the outer wall with a developing velocity and tempera-
ture profile.
Transient conjugate heat transfer to slug flow between parallel plates with either a
temporally varying step or sinusoidal inlet temperature was studied by Sucec [a].
Krishan [9] investigated unsteady conjugate heat transfer in a pipe with fully developed
flow when a temporal step change in either heat flux or temperature was applied at the
outer wall surface. Sucec and Sawant [ l o ] studied unsteady conjugate heat transfer in the
flow between parallel plates with a sinusoidally varying inlet temperature. Sucec [ l l ]
investigated the effect of transient conjugate heat transfer in a duct where natural con-
vection occurred at the outside walls.
Lin and Kuo [12] investigated transient conjugate heat transfer in a pipe with fully
developed flow at the heated section. A step change in uniform heat flux was applied
over a finite length of the infinitely long pipe, in which the upstream and downstream
regions of the outer pipe wall were thermally insulated. The results presented were given
for a wide range of parameters with emphasis on liquid-metal flows in metal pipes. They
found that the wall thickness, PBclet number, and heat capacity of the wall have a great
influence on the heat transfer characteristics. Yan et al. [13] solved for the transient
conjugate heat transfer in fully developed pipe flows when the pipe and fluid were
initially at a constant temperature, and then the outer pipe wall temperature was sud-
denly raised to a new constant temperature. The pipe was infinitely long, and the outer
surface was thermally insulated except at the heated length.
CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER IN A THICK-WALLED PIPE 165

Here, the transient conjugate heat transfer has been investigated in a pipe of finite
length with a constant heat flux applied over the entire outer surface of the pipe. Unlike
the previous studies mentioned, this study has determined the effects of steady and
transient developing velocity profiles on the heat transfer characteristics. At the inlet of
the pipe, uniform temperature and velocity profiles were specified. Two cases were
investigated: a steady developing velocity profile with transient heating conditions, and
velocity and temperature profiles developing simultaneously with time. For both cases,
the following parameters were studied to determine their effects on transient heat trans-
fer characteristics: thermal conductivity ratio, thermal diffusivity ratio, ratio of wall
thickness to inner diameter, PCclet number, and dimensionless length.
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MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
Transient heat transfer with steady axisymmetric developing fluid flow in a circu-
lar pipe was termed case 1, and simultaneous transient development of heat transfer and
fluid flow in a circular pipe was termed case 2. A schematic of the cylindrical coordinate
system used for this study is shown in Fig. 1. A constant heat flux was prescribed at the
outer pipe wall along the entire length L. The fluid enters the pipe at a uniform tempera-
ture T , and a uniform velocity win. It is assumed that the fluid is Newtonian and the flow
is laminar and incompressible. The flow rate and heat flux are such that properties
remain approximately constant and buoyancy effects are negligible compared with those
of forced convection. The equations for the conservation of mass, momentum, and
energy in the fluid region are

77
Tin

Win

Fig. 1 Schematic of transient heat transfer analysis in a pipe as a conjugate problem.


D. J. SCHUTTE ET AL.

In the solid region, v -


w -. 0 , so heat is transferred by pure conduction. The
energy conservation equation in this region is given by
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Boundary Conditions
At the pipe inlet, z - 0

At the pipe outlet, z - L

o<r < r,: p-o 3-0


az

At the outer pipe surface, 0 <z <L

At the inner pipe surface, 0 <z < L

Initial Conditions

uniform velocity profile at z


stream location.
-
Case 1. The flow field did not change with time but did develop axially from the
0 to the fully developed velocity profile at some down-
CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER IN A THICK-WALLED PIPE 167

0 < r < ri and z - 0: w-w,, u-0 (lob)

Case 2. The flow and temperature fields developed simultaneously with time.
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The interfacial heat flux was calculated as follows:

where k, is the harmonic mean of the thermal conductivity at the interface [14] and T,,,
and T,,, are temperatures at nodes next to the interface in the wall and fluid, respectively.
Similarly, r,,, and ri,,are the radial distances to these nodes.

Nondimensional Parameters and Variables


From a dimensional analysis of the above conservation equations and the boundary
and initial conditions, the following nondimensional parameters were defined.

PBclet number of the fluid


Pe - Pr Re - 2ri ~ i . ~ f C f l
kf
Ratio of the thermal conductivities of the wall and fluid

Ratio of the thermal diffusivities of the wall and fluid

'Ratio of wall thickness to inner diameter


168 D. J. SCHUTTE ET AL.

Dimensionless heated length

The independent variables were defined as

Dimensionless axial length


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Dimensionless time (Fourier number)

The dependent variables were

Local Nusselt number

Dimensionless interfacial heat flux


4i
q* '-
4,

Dimensionless bulk temperature

8, - Tb - Ti"
qorilkf

Dimensionless interfacial temperature

Only three of these dependent variables are needed to specify the results of a
particl~larflow situation [7]. It may also be noted that dimensionless axial length is
actually the inverse of the Graetz number.

NUMERICAL PROCEDURE
The governing transport equations for the solid and fluid regions were solved
simultaneously as a single-domain problem. The equations were discretized using a
CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER IN A THICK-WALLED PIPE 169

finite control volume approach, and the hybrid scheme [14] was used to preserve the
convection and/or diffusion terms, depending on the cell PCclet number. The flow field
was solved using the SIMPLESTalgorithm [IS]. The computation started with guessing
the pressure field and solving the momentum equations to obtain the velocity field. The
continuity equation was then used to obtain the corrected pressure field, which was used
as the new guess. The process was repeated until the governing equations were satisfied
within a convergence criterion discussed later. The transient solution to the present
problem used a fully implicit scheme. The method employed to solve the continuity and
momentum equations was a slab-by-slab procedure, which used a slabwise linear solver.
The solution marched in the z direction and solved for each slab at a particular z loca-
tion. The procedure was similar to Stone's strongly implicit method, but was free from
parameters requiring case-to-case adjustments. Due to the elliptic nature of the flow
-
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field, the marching was repeated for a number of sweeps from z 0 to z -- L until the
solution converged. The energy equation was solved in a whole-field manner, which
treated the problem as a single domain.
In order for a converged steady state solution to be reached, the results at each
time step must also be converged. At each time step a converged solution was checked
by examining the residuals of the dependent variables as well as examining for invar-
iance of spot-checked values. The solution was taken to be converged when local field
values did not change by more than 0.1 % in two consecutive sweeps and the residual for
each equation was below

decreased to A -
A uniform grid was used for all cases except when the wall thickness ratio was
0.01. For this case, a nonuniform grid had to be employed in the radial
direction due to the small thickness of the pipe wall. When a uniform grid was used, a total
of 60 x 40 cells were used in the radial and axial directions, with 50 cells in the fluid
region and 10 cells in the solid region. For the nonuniform grid cases a total of 50 x 40
cells were used in the radial and axial directions, with 40 cells in the fluid region and 10
cells in the solid region. A uniform grid was always employed in the axial direction. A
time step of 1 s, which resulted in a Fourier number increment of 0.001786, was used for
most computations. The solutions were verified to be independent of the spatial and tem-
poral step sizes to ensure accurate solutions. A series of test runs were performed to arrive
at this grid and time step distribution. Increasing the number of cells in both directions by
50% changed the transient values of Nusselt number by a maximum of 0.5%. Similarly,
decreasing the time step size by half yielded identical distributions of Nusselt number and
bulk temperature. The use of a time step of more than 1 s did not appear to be practical,
since an accurate transient distribution of heat transfer coefficient was desired. In fact, a
step of 0.5 s was required to accurately capture velocity variations during the transient
simultaneous development of the flow and heat transfer.
Table 1 shows the different cases that were analyzed. The range of parameters was
chosen such that they could be applied in real engineering situations. Case 1 corresponds
to a transient temperature field and a steady developing velocity profile. Case 2 corre-
sponds to the simultaneous transient development of both the temperature and velocity
fields. The letters a-f specify a combination of parameters. Case 3 is the comparison
with the results found by Lin and Kuo [12] for fully developed flow in the heated section
of a pipe with a transient temperature field.
170 D. J. SCHUlTE ET AL.

Table 1 Summary of Parametric Specifications and Duration of Transient


-

Case no. K A A Pe L* (Fo),,

la I .O 10 0. I 100 0.05 0.536


Ib 100 10 0. I 100 0.05 7.143
Ic 500 10 0. I 100 0.05 17.86
Id 1 .O 0.3 0.1 100 0.05 2.857
le 100 10 0. I 20 0.25 17.86
If 100 10 0.01 100 0.05 1.25
2a 1 .O 10 0.1 100 0.05 0.536
2b 100 10 0.1 100 0.05 7.143
2c 500 10 0. I 100 0.05 17.86
2d I .O 0.3 0. I I00 0.05 2.857
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2e 100 10 0.1 20 0.25 17.86


2f 100 10 0.01 100 0.05 1.25
3 1 .O 4 0.25 20 1.25 -

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION


To validate the present computational scheme, a comparison was made of the

downstream regions of the pipe were insulated from z/ri -


transient results of case 3 with those given by Lin and Kuo [12], where the upstream and
- 10 to 0 and from z/r, 50
to 60. Figure 2 shows the comparison for the axial distributions of the Nusselt number
-
and the dimensionless interfacial heat flux. In both figures, only the results within the
heated section were given, since the present analysis was only concerned with a pipe
whose entire length was heated. Figure 2a shows good agreement with the results of Lin
and Kuo for the Nusselt number, with the largest difference of 10% found at Fo 0.02.
As the dimensionless time increased, the agreement improved to within 1.0%. Figure 2b
-
shows excellent agreement when comparing the dimensionless interfacial heat flux, the
largest difference being 2.5 % .
Having established the validity of the numerical formulation, the results of the
simultaneous transient development of heat transfer and fluid flow will be presented.
Figure 3 presents the axial distribution of the Nusselt number, dimensionless interfacial

reached at Fo -
heat flux, and dimensionless bulk temperature for case 2a. The steady state solution was
0.536. At this condition, the Nusselt number distribution shows good
agreement with the analytical results given by Hornbeck [16], and the numerical steady
state solution by Faghri et al. [7], with a maximum difference of 2%. Both the bulk
temperature and the interfacial heat flux increased with time during the transient pro-
cess. The bulk temperature reached a steady value much earlier in time at smaller values
of z* than for larger z*, due to the thermal boundary layer, which developed more
quickly at the entrance of the pipe than downstream. Also, the steady state bulk tempera-
ture distribution was almost linear, which is characteristic of the fully developed temper-
ature profile with a constant heat flux boundary condition applied at the outer wall [17].
Figure 4 shows the results for case 2b, where the thermal conductivity ratio was

larger Fourier number, Fo -


increased by a factor of 100 from case 2a. The solution reached steady state at a much
7.143. Analogous to the previous case, the Nusselt num-
ber decreased gradually during the transient process and arrived at the steady state
solution. At each instant of time, the rapid decrease of Nusselt number near the entrance
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Lln and Kuo [121. Fo=0.02 A LLn and KUO 1121. _Pb_?O&
n Prsmsnt. Fo=0.02 x rp-a_sn&fiEO,f?_
E n and puo &l.Po=OLl
0 Present, Fo=O.Il
v+ C!p+ndE!oU?JAPoP:?-
Prosant, Fo=4.Z

20
3
Z

10
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0
0 10 20 30 40 50
z/ri
la)

Promont. h-0.47
Lln and Kuo [lol, &x¶,O
--
Pr.m.nt, h-2.0 .-

--- -

- - - - - - - ------

Fig. 2 Axial distribution of Nusselt number and interface heat flux for case 3, A
20, K - I, A - 4: (a) Nusselt number, and ( b ) interface heat flux.
- 0.25, Pe -
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A - 0.1, Pe -
Fig. 3 Axial distribution of Nusselt number, interfacial heat flux, and bulk temperature for case 2a:
100, K - 1, A - 10.
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Fig. 4 Axial distribution of Nusselt number, interfacial heat flux, and bulk temperature for case 2b:
A - 0.1, Pe - 100, K - 100, A - 10.
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A - 0.1,Pe -
Fig. 5 Axial distribution of Nusselt number, interfacial heat flux, and bulk temperature for case Zc:
100,K - 500,A - 10.
D. J. SCHUTTE ET AL.
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A - 0.1. Pe - 100, K - -
Fig. 6 Axial distribution of Nusselt number, interfacial heat flux, and bulk temperature for case 2d:
I, A 0.3.
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A - 0.1, Pe 20, K - 100, A -


Fig. 7 Axial distribution of Nusselt number, interfacial heat flux, and bulk ternperamre for case 2e:
- 10.
178 D. J. SCHUTTE ET AL.

entire transient period. In Fig. 7, the interfacial temperature is presented to show its
distribution during the transient process, as opposed to the interfacial heat flux presented
in other figures. Once the Nusselt number and bulk temperature are specified, the inter-
facial temperature and interfacial heat flux are not independent, and only one needs to be
specified.
Figure 8 presents the axial variation of the Nusselt number, dimensionless interfa-
cial heat flux, and dimensionless bulk temperature for case 2f, where a thin-walled tube
(A - 0.01) was investigated. Approximately the same behavior as case 2a is found,
which corresponds to a thermal conductivity ratio of unity. In a thin-walled tube, the
thermal conductivity ratio has a smaller effect on the transient heat transfer characteris-

comparison with the results of case 2b (A -


tics, since the pipe wall presents a smaller resistance to heat transfer. From a relative
0. I), by decreasing the wall thickness, the
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Fo - 1.25 in contrast to Fo-


duration of the transient was also decreased. The steady state condition was reached at
7.143 for case 2b. The effects of axial conduction in the
tube also decrease with wall thickness, and thus there is a more uniform distribution of
interfacial heat flux along the entire tube. The axial conduction increases the heat flux
near the entrance due to the presence of colder fluid in that region.
Figure 9 presents the transient dimensionless velocity profiles at z*
- - 0.01, 0.02,
and 0.04 for Pe
the pipe the velocity profile reached steady state after Fo
velocity reached its fully developed profile at z*
--
100, which correspond to cases 2a-2d and 2f. At all locations along

- 0.04 for Pe
0.0893. In Fig. 9 the
100, which can be
seen from a comparison with the analytical fully developed solution [17]. Figure 9d also
shows the transient velocity profile at z* - 0.01 for case 2e (Pe - 20), where the fully
developed velocity profile was attained. At the lower PBclet number, a much lower
uniform velocity was specified at the entrance of the pipe, so the fully developed profile
was present farther upstream than for cases 2a-2d and 2f, where Pe - 100. During the
transient process, the velocity changed from an initially uniform distribution to the
steady developing flow at the end of the transient.
The other transient situation studied (case 1) was the transient development of the
temperature field when the flow inside the pipe was steady in nature. From the above

momentum equations, the velocity profile reached its steady condition at Fo -


discussions, it was found that when the transient term was included in the energy and

(Fig. 9). Thus, any differences in the results between cases 1 and 2 occurred for Fo <
0.0893

0.0893. As presented elaborately by Schutte [19], the comparison between cases 1 and 2
for Fo < 0.0893 showed, in general, that the dimensionless interfacial temperature and
dimensionless interfacial heat flux distribution were identical whether the velocity field
was transient or steady, while the bulk temperature and Nusselt number were slightly

-
different. This is because the bulk temperature is a function of both the velocity and
temperature, T, (A,w,,,)-' w T dA, and it was used to calculate the Nusselt number.
The distributions of Nusselt number and dimensionless bulk temperature for Fo <
0.0893 for a few specific combinations of flow parameters are presented in Figs. 10-12,
where cases 1 and 2 are compared.
Figures IOa and lob show the distributions of Nusselt number and dimensionless
bulk temperature for cases Ib and 2b. The differences are more significant at smaller
Fourier number and diminish with time. In case 1, the velocity field did not change and
the temperature field developed gradually with time, whereas the bulk temperature
changed more slowly and the Nusselt number developed faster toward a steady state
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0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05


z*
A - 0.01. Pe -
Fig. 8 Axial distribution of Nusselt number, interfacial heat flux, and bulk temperature for case 2f:
100, K - 100, A - 10.
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Po=O.l7B -
A An~lytioorl,fully der. L17J
2 - - -

r*
Fig. 9 Transient velocity profile at different locations along the pipe.
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24
Case 1. Fo=1.788E-02 A Case 2, Fo=1.78-8l3-s
Case I, Fo=3.572E-02 X Ca!e_2,-Fc:_32S_7_22iZ=O_?
Q s %Il, Eo=L351E-g V C a s e 2-,- F?-55.35?'E:O?
0 Case 1, Fo3.143E-02 + Case 2, Fo3.143E-02
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0.010
Case 1, Fo=1.786E-02 A Case 2, Fo=11786E-02
Case 1, Fo=3.572E-02 X Ca_s_e-?,-Fo=:._5_7p-=O_Z
0.008 - Ca~e'.PO=5.357E-0? V Ca?e21Fo-~5.357E??2
0 Case 1, Fo3.143E-02 + Case 2, F03.143E-02
0-006- -- 6

ma
/
_-----_ - - - -8

- - - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-------
______________ 4

(b)
Fig. 10 Axial distribution of Nusselt number and bulk temperaare for cases lb and 2b, A
Pe - 100, K - 100, A - 10: (a) Nusselt number, and (b) bulk temperature.
- 0.1,
D. J. SCHUITE ET AL.

20

16-

g 12-
\---L
---.. ..........................

--------.--------------------- 4
- k3
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8- W Case 1, Fo=1.788E-02 A Case 2, Fo=1.788EE--


Case 1,Fo=3.572E-02 X Case s2-F~_=_3~5_7_2-E=O_?
Qse_I, Eo=L35zE-s V C-+se?-.-F~-~5.35~E:O?
0 Case l,Fo=7.143E-02 + Case 2. Fo3.143E-02
4 I I I I
0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05
z*

20.0
Case 1. Fo=1.786E-02 A Case2LFo=l.786E-02
Case 1, Fo=3.572E-02 X C_a_s_e-~,-~~:3.3_7?_Er-0_2
~ a s ~ l , ~ o = ~ . 3 ~ 7 E 1 0V2 ase2,-F9-=5,35TE7-02
15.0 - 0 Case 1, Fo3.143E-02 +
Case 2, FoS'.l43E-02

-
,,
=€
J!

10.0-
/
- - - - _ _ _
/ -------------______----------------------------
-ii
5.0-4
..............................
4
--
0.0 I I I I
0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05
z*
(61

Pe - 100, K -500, A -
Fig. 11 Axial distribution of Nusselt number and bulk temperature for cases l c and Zc, A
10:(a) Nusselt number, and (b) bulk temperature.
- 0.1,
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W Case 1, Fo=1.786E-02 A Case 2, Fo=l.786E-02


Case 1, Fo=3.572E-02 X C$~$_~,FCF~~~_~_~_E_=O_?
Case-1. Eo=&351E-z2 V C-~geZ,F~5,35~E:0?
20 0 Case 1, Fo3.143E-02 + Case 2, Fog.143E-02
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0.010
W Case 1. Fo=1.786E-02 A Case 2, Fo=l.786E-02
Case 1, Fo=3.572E-02 X Ca_se-g,-~~~._5_7_ZE---O_Z
008 - CaselPFO=5.357E-02- V Case-?LFo3.?~?E.oZ
0 Case 1, Foil.143E-02 + Case 2, F03.143E-02

0.006- - 4
P
m
0 * 004 - 6 -...........................................................
~-- - - - - - - - - - - - -@

0.002 -%---..-
A .....................................
---------- 4
- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - -
0.000 I I I I
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25
z*
lb)

- - -
Fig. 12 Axial distribution of Nusselt number and bulk temperature for cases le and 2e. A
Pe 20,K 100, A 10: (a) Nusselt number, and (b)bulk temperature.
- 0.1,
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condition. Also, the differences between case 1 and case 2 were greater at larger dis-
tances, since the momentum boundary layer propagated downstream from the entrance
section of the pipe with time. In case 1 the momentum boundary layer was already
established, and only the thermal boundary layer developed with time.
Figures I l a and 1l b compare the distributions of Nusselt number and dimension-
less bulk temperature for cases Ic and 2c. Even though the values are different, the
percentage differences in Nu and 8, between the two transients are nearly the same as in
Fig. 10, which corresponded to a smaller thermal conductivity ratio. Even though the
transient time increased with the thermal conductivity ratio, the propagation of the ve-
locity field was not significantly affected. This result was expected, since in the absence
of any significant property variation or natural convection, the momentum equations are
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not coupled to the energy equation.


Figure 12 presents results corresponding to cases l e and 2e that have the same
conditions as cases l b and 2b presented in Fig. 10, except that the PCclet number was
reduced to Pe - 20. With the reduction of Pe, the differences between the two transients
slightly increased, since a smaller Pe led to a slower development of the momentum

bulk temperature diminish with time and practically disappear after Fo -


boundary layer inside the pipe. As before, the differences in both Nusselt number and
0.0893.
From the above discussions it can be inferred that if a steady velocity field is
assumed for a transient conjugate heating situation in a pipe, the results show a small
deviation from the results with a transient velocity field. As seen in Figs. 10-12, the
dimensionless bulk temperature will be slightly underestimated by assuming a steady
velocity field at small values of time. As a result, the Nusselt number will also be
slightly underestimated, since the smaller bulk temperature is subtracted from the inter-
face temperature in the denominator of.the Nusselt number.
The effects of different parameters on the duration of the transient can be seen
from the distribution of (Fo),, listed in Table 1. A longer time was required to arrive at
the steady state condition when the ratio of solid to fluid thermal conductivity was
increased. This result indicates that for a given pipe material, a fluid with a smaller
thermal conductivity will encounter a longer transient period, as expected. Also from
Table I, it can be seen that the transient time decreased with an increase in the thermal
diffusivity ratio. Comparing (Fo),, for cases l b and le, the Ptclet number has significant
influence on the duration of the transient. With a fivefold increase of Ptclet number, the
duration of the transient was reduced by a factor of 0.4. Thus when the flow rate inside
the pipe was increased, the transient period decreased significantly. Also, the wall thick-
ness has a large influence on the duration of the transient: The transient time as well as
the effects of axial conduction inside the pipe wall increase with an increase in pipe wall
thickness. Therefore, in the design of heat exchangers operating at high pressures where
pipe walls need to be thick, one must account for the conjugate heat transfer phenome-
non as well as the associated transients during startup or shutdown, or during a change in
the operating conditions.

CONCLUSIONS
Transient conjugate heat transfer in a thick-walled pipe with developing laminar
flow has been investigated. The effects of the thermal conductivity ratio, thermal diffu-
sivity ratio, wall thickness ratio, and Ptclet number on the transient heat transfer charac-
CONJUGATE HEAT TRANSFER IN A THICK-WALLED PIPE 185

teristics have been determined. Increasing the thermal conductivity ratio and decreasing
the thermal diffusivity ratio both greatly increased the amount of time needed to reach
steady state. When the Pkclet number of the fluid was decreased, the time needed to
reach steady state was increased. When the wall thickness ratio was decreased, the
transient was speeded up, and steady state was attained more quickly due to the smaller
thermal capacity and thermal resistance of the wall. It was found that the time required
for development of the velocity profile was much smaller than the time required to
establish the temperature field. Therefore, the heat transfer results for the case of simul-
taneous transient development of flow and heating were identical to those of transient
heating in a developed flow at large values of Fourier number.
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Received 5 February 1991


Accepted 30 April 1991
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