Heat and Mass Transfer in an Indirect Contact Cooling Tower: CFD Simulation and Experiment

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2008

Autores

Jorge Facão (Autor) FEUP; Armando C. Oliveira (Autor) FEUP

Revista

Título: Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Vol. 54 Nº 10

Páginas: 933-944

ISSN: 1040-7782

Editora: Taylor & Francis

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 6 Citações

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 8 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-004-49Q

DOI: 10.1080/10407780802359104

Abstract (EN): The present work is focused on the computational analysis of heat and mass transfer in an indirect contact cooling tower. The main objectives of the study are to contribute to the understanding of heat and mass transfer mechanisms involved in the problem and to check the possibility of making use of a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code for simulating mass and heat transfer phenomena occurring in indirect cooling towers. The CFD model uses as boundary conditions the temperatures of the tubes obtained by a correlation model developed by Mizushina. The available mass transfer correlations for indirect cooling towers are presented and compared with a correlation obtained from CFD simulations. The assumption of analogy between heat and mass transfer is also discussed.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica