Natural convection heat transfer from helicoidal pipes

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OSTI ID:445509

Xin, R C; Ebadlan, M A ^[1]

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1. Florida International Univ., Miami, FL (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

An experimental investigation is reported on natural convection heat transfer in air from outer surface of uniformly heated helicoidal pipes with vertical and horizontal orientations. The temperatures along the flow direction and peripheral direction of the tube wall were measured. The test Rayleigh numbers range from 4,000 to 100,000. The local and average Nusselt numbers are evaluated and correlated. For the vertical case, the results are compared with those of single horizontal cylinder and column of horizontal cylinders. It is found that the heat transfer from the first turn is almost the same as that of single horizontal cylinder. The heat transfer coefficient on the outer coil wall ({psi} = 3{pi}/2) is higher than that on the inner coil wall ({psi} = 3{pi}/2) in the middle turns of the coil, due to the tube curvature. For the horizontal orientation, the results are well correlated with the tube diameter as characteristic length. The local heat transfer characteristics is discussed as well. The overall average Nusselt number of the horizontal coil is higher than that of the vertical coil in the laminar region.

• Sponsoring Organization: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 445509
• Report Number(s): CONF-950828--; ISBN 0-7918-1709-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HELICAL CONFIGURATION
NATURAL CONVECTION
NUSSELT NUMBER
PIPES