Papers Published

  1. Beloff, P. S. and Bejan, A. and Campo, A., TRANSIET NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER IN A LARGE-DIAMETER CYLINDER., Exper Therm Fluid Sci, vol. 1 no. 3 (1988), pp. 267 - 274 [0894-1777(88)90006-4] .
    (last updated on 2007/04/08)

    Abstract:
    This paper describes an experimental study of transient natural convection heating and cooling of a 30 cm diameter horizontal cylinder filled with water or water-glycerol solutions. The Rayleigh number range covered by these experiments is 8 multiplied by 10**7 minus 3 multiplied by 10**9. The flow regime is turbulent. The overall Nusselt numbers measured when the cylinder is filled only partially with water agree with the other measurements and low-Ra correlations, provided the average heat flux is based on the wetted portion of the cylinder surface. Qualitative descriptions of the turbulent circulation during heating experiments are also reported.

    Keywords:
    MASS TRANSFER;ENCLOSURES;FLOW OF FLUIDS - Visualization;