Heat and mass transfer in natural convection vertical channels was investigated by means of two-dimensional CFD simulations aided by optimization algorithms. The channel was immersed in air, enclosed between an adiabatic smooth wall and an isothermally heated ribbed wall. The ribs were perpendicular to the fluid flow and their height, width, pitch, thermal conductivity and lateral wall inclination were variable. Also the smooth heated wall channel was studied and compared with the ribbed one. The existence of an optimal channel width for a given channel height and rib geometry was shown. A sensitivity analysis was carried out for the ribbed and the smooth channels. Optimization was applied to the ribbed channel problem in order to maximize the heat and the mass transfer through a multi-objective genetic algorithm. It was found that the presence of the ribs penalizes the channel performance so that no ribbed channel over-performed the smooth one.

Optimization of a buoyancy chimney with a heated ribbed wall / Cavazzuti, Marco; Corticelli, Mauro Alessandro. - In: HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER. - ISSN 0947-7411. - STAMPA. - 44:4(2008), pp. 421-435. [10.1007/s00231-007-0255-6]

Optimization of a buoyancy chimney with a heated ribbed wall

CAVAZZUTI, Marco;CORTICELLI, Mauro Alessandro
2008

Abstract

Heat and mass transfer in natural convection vertical channels was investigated by means of two-dimensional CFD simulations aided by optimization algorithms. The channel was immersed in air, enclosed between an adiabatic smooth wall and an isothermally heated ribbed wall. The ribs were perpendicular to the fluid flow and their height, width, pitch, thermal conductivity and lateral wall inclination were variable. Also the smooth heated wall channel was studied and compared with the ribbed one. The existence of an optimal channel width for a given channel height and rib geometry was shown. A sensitivity analysis was carried out for the ribbed and the smooth channels. Optimization was applied to the ribbed channel problem in order to maximize the heat and the mass transfer through a multi-objective genetic algorithm. It was found that the presence of the ribs penalizes the channel performance so that no ribbed channel over-performed the smooth one.
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Optimization of a buoyancy chimney with a heated ribbed wall / Cavazzuti, Marco; Corticelli, Mauro Alessandro. - In: HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER. - ISSN 0947-7411. - STAMPA. - 44:4(2008), pp. 421-435. [10.1007/s00231-007-0255-6]
Cavazzuti, Marco; Corticelli, Mauro Alessandro
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