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Viscous dissipation effects on thermal entrance region heat transfer in pipes with uniform wall heat flux

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The analytical solution to Graetz problem with uniform wall heat flux is extended by including the viscous dissipation effect in the analysis. The analytical solution obtained reduces to that of Siegel, Sparrow and Hallman neglecting viscous dissipation as a limiting case. The sample developing temperature profiles, wall and bulk temperature distributions and the local Nusselt number variations are presented to illustrate the viscous dissipation effects. It is found that the role of viscous dissipation on thermal entrance region heat transfer is completely different for heating and cooling at wall. In the case of cooling at wall, a critical value of Brinkman number, Br c=−11/24, exists beyond which (−11/24<Br<0) the fluid bulk temperature will always be less than the uniform entrance temperature indicating the predominance of cooling effect over the viscous heating effect. On the other hand, with Br < Br c the bulk temperature T b will approach the wall temperature T w at some downstream position and from there onward the bulk temperature T b becomes less than the wall temperature T w with T w > B b > T 0 indicating overall heating effect for the fluid. The numerical results for the case of cooling at wall Br < 0 are believed to be of some interest in the design of the proposed artctic oil pipeline.

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Abbreviations

Br :

Brinkman number, μU 2m /kT c=Pr Ec

C n , D n , K n :

coefficients in the series expansion of θ, equation (13)

C p :

specific heat at constant pressure

Ec :

Eckert number, U 2m /C p T c

h :

local heat transfer coefficient

k :

thermal conductivity

Nu :

local Nusselt number, (2R 0) h/k

P :

axial pressure

Pr :

Prandtl number, C p μ/k

q w :

uniform wall heat flux per unit area

R, X :

radial and axial coordinates

Re :

Reynolds number, (2R 0) U m/ν

R 0 :

pipe radius

r, x :

dimensionless radial and axial coordinates, R/R 0, X/R 0 Re Pr

T, T b, T 0, T w :

fluid temperature, bulk temperature, uniform fluid temperature at entrance and wall temperature, respectively

T c :

characteristic temperature, q w R 0/k

U, U m :

fluid velocity and mean fluid velocity in X direction

u :

dimensionless axial velocity, U/2 U m=(1−r 2)

Y n :

eigenfunctions of equation (10)

β n :

eigenvalues of equation (10)

θ :

dimensionless temperature difference defined in equation (6)

θ :

dimensionless temperature difference, (T−T 0)/T c

θ b :

bulk temperature, 4 ∝ 10 θur dr

θ w :

wall temperature (T w−T 0)/T c

μ :

absolute viscosity

ν :

kinematic viscosity

ρ :

fluid density

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Ou, J.W., Cheng, K.C. Viscous dissipation effects on thermal entrance region heat transfer in pipes with uniform wall heat flux. Appl. Sci. Res. 28, 289–301 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413074

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