Transient conjugated heat transfer analysis from a sphere with nonlinear boundary conditions (Q1339944)

The problem of conjugate unsteady convective and radiative heat transfer from a solid spherical particle is numerically investigated for Reynolds numbers up to 100 using a Chebyshev-Legendre spectral method. The study is based on the transient, conjugate approach which treats both exterior and interior domains separately in such a way that the temperature and heat flux of the two domains match at the interface. The work is an extension of the previous effort of simulating a flow around a sphere using a spectral method to include heat transfer. A numerical experiment, using the influence matrix technique for the nonlinear boundary value problem, is performed. An influence matrix technique has been successfully applied to decompose the stream function and vorticity for the Navier-Stokes equation. Results based on the quasi-steady assumption are compared with those obtained by simultaneous treatment of the unsteady momentum and energy conservation equations. It is found that the quasi-steady assumption underestimates the overall heat transfer rate at very early stages (up to 9\% underestimation for the mean Nusselt number). However, the discrepancy becomes smaller as time elapses. The underprediction of the quasi-steady assumption becomes larger as the Reynolds number increases for a fixed Prandtl number. Drag coefficients and Nusselt numbers are calculated and compared with previous works as a means of verifying their approach. The results are in excellent agreement with previous results.