Numerical Simulation of Transient Thermal Convection of Heated Plate

2010-01-0550

04/12/2010

Event
SAE 2010 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Accurate simulation of long term transient thermal convection is critical to automotive related thermal and fluid flow applications. For instance, long term thermal transients are relevant to “key-off” situations in which a moving vehicle brought to a stop leads to a usual initial spike in temperature followed by a drop as the heat sources are turned off.
Presented are simulations of a simple tube and plate configuration that captures the contribution of all heat transfer effects and complexities of a vehicle key-off process. The simulations were performed using a coupling between the flow solver and the thermal simulation package that includes conduction and radiation effects.
The simulation results were compared with the test data for steady state forced convection cases and transient natural convection cases. Good agreement was observed for both steady and transient simulations.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-0550
Pages
9
Citation
Mukutmoni, D., Han, J., Alejbegovic, A., Colibert, L. et al., "Numerical Simulation of Transient Thermal Convection of Heated Plate," SAE Technical Paper 2010-01-0550, 2010, https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-0550.
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Published
Apr 12, 2010
Product Code
2010-01-0550
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English