Transient Hydrodynamic Phenomena and Conjugate Heat Transfer During Cooling of Water in An Underground Thermal Storage Tank  

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Belessiotis, V. ; Papanicolaou, E.

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Heat Transfer vol. 126 no. 1 (Feb. 2004), page 84-96.
Topik: storage; hydrodynamic phenomena; heat transfer; cooling of water; thermal storage tank

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The flow and heat transfer phenomena inside an underground thermal storage tank, initially filled with hot water at an almost uniform temperature and then left to interact with the cold surroundings, are studied numerically. The purpose of the study is to gain insight into how these phenomena affect the heat losses to the surroundings, before a new charging process takes place. A two - dimensional numerical model to solve for the transient flow and thermal fields within the tank coupled with the heat transport through the tank walls and within the ground are employed. Natural convection is found to dominate at the early transients when a strong recirculation develops, with a Rayleigh number characteristic of turbulent flow. A low - Re k – turbulence model is used for the computation. As time proceeds and the temperature differences between water and surroundings decrease, the recirculation decays and the heat transfer is dominated by thermal diffusion. The ground properties are varied, mainly in order to account for different moisture contents in the ground. Comparisons are made under realistic conditions with preliminary experimental results showing satisfactory agreement.

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