Experimental Equipment for Forced Convection Heat Transfer with Equilibrium Tracking

Abstract

Based on the principle of forced convection heat transfer in a single tube with air transverse sweep, an experimental device of forced convection heat transfer with equilibrium point tracking was developed. The device controls wind speed, heating power and other experimental working parameters by MCU, synchronously adjusting, collecting and analyzing working parameters in real time, to realize the tracking of thermal balance point. Newton cooling formula and criterion relation are adopted to calculate Nusselt number and Reynolds number automatically, to fit criterion relation and to display correlation curve automatically, and to realize automatic data analysis. The test results show that the experimental results are in good agreement with the empirical correlation formula within the Reynolds number range of 40 ~ 4000, which realizes the automatic tracking of thermal equilibrium point and meets the requirements of real-time automatic measurement in forced convection heat transfer experiment.