A novel method of enhancing convective heat transfer by dynamic controlling rib

Abstract

New and efficient mixing heat technology is increasingly demanded for many industrial fields. This paper proposed a novel technique of enhancing convective heat transfer by dynamic controlling rib and investigated several cases of vibration rib controlling flow. The study results of heat transfer coefficient, temperature and turbulent intensity indicate that dynamic flow control is an efficient heat transfer enhancement technique. The dynamic flow control breaks through the current enhancement heat transfer technologies such as general stationary rib and other vortex generators, and achieves a better heat transfer effect. Comparing traditional rib technologies, vibration rib does not only increase heat transfer performance but leads a lower flow resistance. More importantly, it can be dynamically adjusted to achieve better flow turbulence. As a conclusion, the enhancement heat transfer performance can be timely dynamically adjusted to meet the different heat transfer demand by changing timely the frequency and amplitude of vibration rib, which achieves the optimization of whole system thermal protection. New enhancing heat transfer technique effectively improve the comprehensive heat transfer performance, and provides a reference for intelligent thermal control protection system