Flow and unsteady heat transfer around a moving and rotating sphere is considered as it passes through the thermal entrance region of a heated pipe. The flow is incompressible and viscous with constant properties, and the heated pipe wall is kept at a constant temperature. Two Peclet numbers of 25 and 100 are considered along with two sphere-to-pipe-diameter ratios of 0.2 and 0.4. The flow is made three dimensional by an eccentric positioning of the sphere inside the pipe. The governing equations are solved by a validated numerical method which uses a finite volume formulation in a generalized body-fitted coordinate system. An overset (Chimera) grid scheme is used to resolve the two geometries of the pipe and sphere. The results are presented in terms of the steady pressure and viscous lift and drag forces on the sphere. In addition the unsteady heat transfer characteristics of the flow are presented in terms of the local and overall Nusselt number evolution around the sphere as it passes through the thermal entrance region of the pipe. Sphere heat-up is also given as the lumped mass sphere temperature as a function of distance from the thermal entrance. [S0022-1481(00)02402-6]

Issue Section:
Heat Transfer Enhancement
Keywords:
heat transfer, pipe flow, drag, finite volume methods, Heat Transfer, Moving Boundaries, Numerical Methods, Spheres, Transient
Topics:
Entrance region, Flow (Dynamics), Heat transfer, Pipes, Fluids, Temperature, Drag (Fluid dynamics), Pressure
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