Lihui Zhang¹, Huichuang Yang¹, Weigang Li³, Jixin Xu³, Wei Zhou², Donghui Wen⁴, Yanmin Zhang^3,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.22, No.5, pp. 1477-1492, 2024, DOI:10.32604/fhmt.2024.052675 - 30 October 2024

Abstract Indoor heating with an electrical heating cable, which has no harmful emissions to the environment, is an attractive way for radiant floor heating. To improve the heat transfer efficiency, a novel structure of the heating cable was designed by proposing the concept of the aluminum finned sheath. The transient heat transfer model from the embedded heating cables to the floor is established to validate the feasibility of this novel cable. The effects of the fin number and shape on the cable’s temperature and heat flux distribution were analyzed. The results show that, with the specific More > Graphic Abstract

M. Tsuda¹, T. Asada¹, N. Ohno^1,2, T. Igari³

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.10, No.3, pp. 2-2, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.010.097

Abstract In this study, homogenized elastic-viscoplastic behavior of plate-fin structures fabricated for compact heat exchangers is investigated. First, the homogenized behavior is numerically analyzed using a fully implicit mathematical homogenization scheme of periodic elastic-inelastic solids. A power-law creep equation is assumed to represent the viscoplasticity of base metals at high temperatures. The plate-fin structures are thus shown to exhibit significant anisotropy as well as compressibility in both the elastic and viscoplastic ranges of the homogenized behavior. Second, a non-linear rate-dependent macroscopic constitutive model is developed by utilizing the quadratic yield function proposed for anisotropic compressible plasticity. More >