Heat-transfer scaling laws for MHD channels and diffusers
Abstract
A quasi-three dimensional flow model is used to study the convective and radiative heat transfer characteristics of coal fired MHD channels and diffusers. The radiative contributions of carbon dioxide, were vapor, potassium atoms, and slag particles are all included in the model. The scale up of heat transfer with the size of MHD channels and diffusers is characterized as an aid to extrapolation of experimental heat transfer measurements. The scale up of radiation with the channel or diffuser size, centerline temperature, wall temperature, boundary layer thickness, gas pressure, and average size and number density of slag particles is investigated. Generalized plots of gas emissivity and absorptivity are provided for use in estimating radiative heat transfer in MHD channels and diffusers.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 7th Intern. Conf. on MHD Elec. Power Generation
- Pub Date:
- 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980mhde.conf...16A
- Keywords:
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- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Deflectors;
- Ducts;
- Magnetohydrodynamics;
- Radiative Heat Transfer;
- Reactor Materials;
- Scaling Laws;
- Boundary Layers;
- Coal;
- Combustion Chambers;
- Slags;
- Three Dimensional Models;
- Plasma Physics