Modares Mechanical Engineering

Modares Mechanical Engineering

Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of ultrasonic transducer vibration amplitude on convection heat transfer from a spiral heater surface

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
Razieh Abedini 1
Faezeh Najafi 2
Mohammad Passandideh-Fard 3
Amir Abdolah 4
Ali Faezian 5
1 PhD student
2 no
3 professor
4 Assistant Professor
5 assistant professor
10.22034/mme.23.8.497
Abstract
In this article, the numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of ultrasonic waves on the heat transfer rate with an increase of the wave amplitude is discussed. Numerical modeling determines the possibility of the investigation of the ultrasonic wave’s effects on fluid flow distribution and heat transfer. For this purpose, a cylindrical tank is considered inside which a spiral heater is placed at a fixed height in the water. In addition, ultrasonic transducers are considered as circular plates under the bottom of the tank. In order to simulate, the ANSYS Fluent software is used and the modeling is accomplished in two stages before and after ultrasonic excitation. To validate the numerical results, they are compared with those of the experiments. For this purpose, an experimental setup is prepared witch consists two coaxial cylinders, a spiral heater kept at a certain height in the water, and five transducers attached to the bottom of the tank. Both experimental and numerical results show that the convection heat transfer coefficient increases with the use of ultrasonic waves with a discrepancy of nearly 4% between the results. By increasing the heat transfer coefficient, the heater surface temperature decreases. The discrepancy between the measured and calculated temperature is about 5%. The velocity and temperature distributions obtained from the numerical results show that using ultrasonic waves enhance the fluid flow mixing which in turn increases the convection heat transfer. The higher the amplitude of the ultrasonic wave, the higher the heat transfer coefficient will result.
Keywords
Ultrasonic
acoustic cavitation
acoustic streaming
Heat Transfer Coefficient
Vibration Amplitude

Subjects

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Modares Mechanical Engineering
Volume 23, Issue 8
August 2023
Pages 497-510