Heat transfer enhancement with deformation of the velocity profile (Q1316798)

The problem of enhancing the heat transfer in channels and boundary layers by the appropriate deformation of the fluid velocity profile is considered. The resulting additional hydraulic losses, the ``price'' of heat transfer enhancement, are determined. The possibilities of controlling heat transfer by redistributing the fluid velocity in channels are demonstrated with reference to flows at low Prandtl numbers. Laminar and turbulent liquid and gas flows with heat transfer in channels and boundary layers are numerically modelled on the basis of modern models of turbulence. A class of self-similar thermal problems for flows in plane diffusers is formulated. The eigenfunctions -- temperature modes -- for various velocity profiles are determined with allowance for the nonuniqueness of the solution of the classical dynamical problem for a plane diffuser and the corresponding heat transfer coefficients are found.