W. F. A. Borges, A. Araújo, O. D. Q. D. O. Filho, J. Rohatgi, G. F. Pinto
{"title":"DETERMINATION OF WEIBULL PARAMETERS FOR WIND APPLICATIONS IN TWO DIFFERENT REGIONS","authors":"W. F. A. Borges, A. Araújo, O. D. Q. D. O. Filho, J. Rohatgi, G. F. Pinto","doi":"10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64123","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, the main objective is to determine the shape (k) and scale (c) parameters of the Weibull probability density function through four numerical methods, known as graphical method (GM), empirical method of Justus (EMJ), empirical method of Lysen (EML), and moment method (MM) in two distinct cities, Gravatá-PE and Osório-RS, under the influence of two wind regimes. To do that, it will be used the hourly wind data obtained through NASA's Meteonorm database, from 2006 to 2015. Statistical analyzes also will be used to determine the best method used to determine these parameters.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133413877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF MACROSEGREGATION IN INGOT CASTING","authors":"M. O. Junior, M. Vynnycky","doi":"10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-2168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-2168","url":null,"abstract":"The occurrence of macrosegregation in alloys produced by ingot casting can adversely affect the quality of the final product. Macrosegregation can be described as a severe variation on the macroscopic scale of the chemical species that compose the alloy, and the ability of computational simulations to predict such defects remains far from perfect. Therefore, this research focuses on the development of a two-dimensional mathematical model that - through computational simulations - could be applied to study and predict the formation of macrosegregation in the ingot casting of binary alloys. Once accomplished, this work can establish the framework to new studies that will tackle more advanced problems, e.g., for actual ingot geometries, three-dimensional models and industrially-important ternary alloys.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124993544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AN INVERSE PROBLEM USING GREEN’S FUNCTIONS AND TFBGF METHOD TO INDENTIFICATE A MOVING HEAT SOURCE IN 3D HEAT CONDUCTION","authors":"sidney ribeiro, G. Oliveira, G. Guimarães","doi":"10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64135","url":null,"abstract":"Moving heat source are present in numerous practical problems in engineering. For example, machining process as the Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), laser welding, friction stirwleing process or milding problem. Moving heat source are also present in biological heating as the metabolism or in heat thermal treatment. All these cases, the heat input identification is a complex task and represents an important factor in the process optimization. The aim of this work is to investigate both the temperature field as the heat flux delivered to a piece during a process with moving heat source.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126881818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Lins, G. Stieven, D. Soares, Edilma P. Oliveira
{"title":"NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION ON METAL CASTING IN VERTICAL SOLIDIFICATION","authors":"E. Lins, G. Stieven, D. Soares, Edilma P. Oliveira","doi":"10.26678/abcm.cobem2017.cob17-1880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26678/abcm.cobem2017.cob17-1880","url":null,"abstract":"The metals and alloys solidification can be defined as a transient heat transfer process. A liquid/solid transformation is followed by thermal energy liberation, with a movable boundary separating two phases with different thermophysical properties. The solidification is of great interest to mechanical and chemical engineers. It is a non-linear transient phenomenon, where heat transfer between the casting and the mold plays a important role. This paper aims to propose a study of heat flow from the casting to the mold using a numerical technique to compute the temperature history of all points inside the casting. The cooling process consists of water-cooled mold with heat being extracted only from the bottom, resulting in unidirectional vertical solidification. The ANSYS software was used to obtain the temperature distribution in the casting. Good agreement was obtained when the simulation results were compared with the experimental data.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124114214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT MODELS FOR CALCULATION OF DNI","authors":"G. S. Lima, A. O. Souza","doi":"10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64127","url":null,"abstract":"For prospecting or design of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems it is necessary to know the distribution of the Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) of the region. However, due to the recurring operational problems of measuring instruments, the use of mathematical models estimating the local DNI can be a very useful tool. The objective of this work is to construct a mathematical model that is used in the calculation of the DNI using experimental data provided by the Laboratory of Tropical Environmental Variables (LAVAT/INPE). This model was compared with other mathematical models already present in the literature. The consideration of clean-sky was used, that is, the effects of cloudiness, among others, were neglected.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131030527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE FLOW OVER A COMMERCIAL VEHICLE - PICKUP","authors":"W. J. Pinto, O. Almeida","doi":"10.5380/reterm.v17i2.64136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5380/reterm.v17i2.64136","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an ongoing numerical and experimental study of the flow around a pickup vehicle by means of CFD simulations and wind tunnel experiments. The model was based on the light-pickup market in Brazil and it was designed with flat surfaces and sharp edges. One of the objectives of this research was the understanding about the flow pattern around the vehicle, especially in the region behind the cabin and the wake. Another goal was to obtain original data from experimental measurements which could be used on further computational investigations. The experiments were carried out in a low-speed wind tunnel at Reynolds number of 5 x 105. Hot-wire anemometry was used to obtain the velocity profiles. Wall tufts were applied to describe the flow direction and regions of attached/detached and recirculation zones. Acceleration due to the underbody and the shear layer formed on the cabin were well defined, also indicating a region of reverse flow behind the tailgate. The flow visualization allowed the identification of recirculation regions inside the trunk and regions of detached flow. These flow patterns were also reproduced in the CFD simulations resulting satisfactory information to describe the main flow pattern over the pickup vehicle.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133922851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF THE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF REFRIGERANTS R134A, R245fa, R407C AND R600a DURING FLOW BOILING IN A MICROCHANNELS HEAT SINK","authors":"H. L. S. L. Leão, D. Marchetto, G. Ribatski","doi":"10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5380/RETERM.V17I2.64132","url":null,"abstract":"A comparative study of the performance of of refrigerants R134a, R407C, R245fa and R600a during flow boiling was performed for a 123x494 µm2 heat sink composed of 50 parallel rectangular microchannels. Heat transfer experimental results for heat fluxes up to 310 kW/m2, mass velocities from 300 to 800 kg/(m2 s), liquid subcoolings of 5 and 10 °C and saturation temperature close to 30 ºC were obtained. Global heat transfer coefficients (footprint) up to 10 kW/(m2 °C) were found. The liquid superheating necessary for the onset of nucleate boiling (ONB) was also characterized, and the fluids R245fa and R407C presented the highest and lowest, respectively, superheating to trigger the boiling process. Moreover, for a fixed averaged vapor quality, the average effective heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing mass velocity and liquid subcooling. The refrigerants R600a and R407C presented the highest and the lowest heat transfer coefficients, respectively. Five heat transfer predictive methods from literature provided accurate predictions of the data for R134a, R245fa and R600a, capturing most of the data trends. No one method provided accurate predictions of the heat transfer coefficient data of R407C.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127974898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Venezuela, R. F. Cantão, R. Ongaratto, R. Haneda
{"title":"MODIFIED SERIES RESISTANCE MODEL - DETERMINATION OF MEAN CONCENTRATION BY INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION","authors":"A. Venezuela, R. F. Cantão, R. Ongaratto, R. Haneda","doi":"10.5380/RETERM.V17I1.62266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5380/RETERM.V17I1.62266","url":null,"abstract":"There are several mathematical models that describe permeate flow in membrane separation processes. Among these, the series resistance model plays a prominent role. It takes into account membrane strength, concentration polarization, polarized layer and fouling to describe the permeate flow over time. In this work, an analysis of the modified series resistance model was performed, in which the resistance by polarization of the concentration is defined as being directly proportional to the transmembrane pressure. The proportionality constant is given by the product of a specific coefficient of resistance – which is determined by means of experimental data – the thickness of the boundary layer of concentration and the mean concentration. Due to the inability to obtain experimentally the value of the average concentration within the boundary layer of concentration, its simulation is carried out from the conservation equation of the chemical species. Thus, the objective of the present work was to solve the equation of the conservation of chemical species using GITT (Generalized Integral Transform Technique) and apply the modified series resistance model to describe the permeate flow of a solution of dextran through a permeable tube under laminar flow. GITT provided satisfactory results for the mean concentration, verified by comparison with the permeate flow obtained by the series resistance model with experimental results reported in the literature.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131676529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON THE MONITORING OF THE GAS-SOLID FLOWS IN INDUSTRIAL FLUIDIZED BEDS BY USING ELECTRICAL CHARGE SENSORS","authors":"E. Reis, Matheus Ferreira Felix de Andrade","doi":"10.26678/abcm.cobem2017.cob17-1715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26678/abcm.cobem2017.cob17-1715","url":null,"abstract":"The fluidized bed technology has been used in many industrial processes. It promotes good rates of heat, mass transfer and chemical reaction by generating high level of gas-solid mixture. However, the assurance of quality and efficiency of these processes requires the monitoring of the gas-solid flow. For this propose, there are some sensing techniques that allows generating dynamic signals from cold or hot fluidized beds. They are based on pressure fluctuations, acoustic and mechanical vibrations, electrical capacitance and on electrical charges. Electrical charge sensors were proposed originally for measuring the flow velocity in pneumatic conveying. They are composed of one or more metallic electrodes that detect electrical charges in the gas-solid flow, which are generated by particle-particle and particle-wall interaction due to triboelectric effect. In this work, such sensors are explored as a robust and inexpensive solution for the monitoring of industrial fluidized beds. However, since research investments are requested specially on the design of the sensor, concerning the flow quantity of interest and the electrification processes acting on the sensor, in this work different configurations were classified from information in literature, and other were proposed in this work concerning their use with industrial fluidized beds. Although the relation between magnitude of the detected charges and some physical quantities of the flow, such as concentration, is still not clear, other important information can be obtained by analyzing dynamic signals, as velocity or bubbles frequency, or even for identifying of the fluidization regime. It was stated that each configuration, with its own shape and arrangement, can promote or not one or other electrification process by contact, friction or induction and, therefore, each one has a different perception of the flow.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115478060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giovanni M. Furtado, S. Frey, M. Naccache, P. Mendes
{"title":"NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A ELASTO-VISCOPLASTIC FLUID FLOW INSIDE A CAVITY","authors":"Giovanni M. Furtado, S. Frey, M. Naccache, P. Mendes","doi":"10.5380/RETERM.V17I1.62262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5380/RETERM.V17I1.62262","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses finite element approximations for elasto-viscoplastic flows. Numerical simulations aiming at investigating the role of elasticity for inertialess flows of viscoplastic materials within lid-driven cavity.The mechanical model is made up of the usual governing equations for incompressible fluids coupled with a Oldroyd-B type equation (de Souza Mendes, 2011) modified to incorporate the dependency both of relaxation and retardation time as the viscoplastic viscosity on the strain rate. These parameters depend on the material microstructure, which level is described by an structure parameter . This model is approximated by a multi-field Galerkin least-squares formulation (Behr et al., 1993) in terms of extra-stress tensor, the pressure field and the velocity vector. Results, focused on the determination of yield surface topology, investigate the influence of elastic and viscous governing parameters on the flow pattern.","PeriodicalId":106768,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Engenharia Térmica","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132618392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}