Heat Transfer From Air-Cooled Contrarotating Disks
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by ASME International in Journal of Turbomachinery
- Vol. 119 (1), 61-67
- https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2841011
Abstract
A superposed radial outflow of air is used to cool two disks that are rotating at equal and opposite speeds at rotational Reynolds numbers up to 1.2 × 106. One disk, which is heated up to 100°C, is instrumented with thermocouples and fluxmeters; the other disk, which is unheated, is made from transparent polycarbonate to allow the measurement of velocity using an LDA system. Measured Nusselt numbers and velocities are compared with computations made using an axisymmetric elliptic solver with a low-Reynolds-number k–ε turbulence model. Over the range of flow rates and rotational speeds tested, agreement between the computations and measurements is mainly good. As suggested by the Reynolds analogy, the Nusselt numbers for contrarotating disks increase strongly with rotational speed and weakly with flow rate; they are lower than the values obtained under equivalent conditions in a rotor–stator system.Keywords
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