Viscous dissipation effect on entropy generation in curved square microchannels

Jiangfeng Guo, Mingtian Xu, Jun Cai and Xiulan Huai

Energy, 2011, vol. 36, issue 8, 5416-5423

Abstract: The viscous dissipation effect on the thermodynamic performance of the curved square microchannels in laminar flow is numerically investigated. The classical Navier–Stokes equations are adopted; aniline and ethylene glycol are selected as the working fluids. The results show that the heat transfer entropy generation number and frictional entropy generation number augment relatively under viscous dissipation effect for the case of fluid heated, and the opposite results can be found for the case of fluid cooled. The heat transfer entropy generation number increases with Reynolds number at large Reynolds number region under viscous dissipation effect when ethylene glycol is heated. The total entropy generation number extremum exists for aniline, and the extremum happens earlier when aniline is heated than when aniline is cooled. The smaller the curvature radius is, the earlier the extremum appears. The extremum does not occur for ethylene glycol due to the predomination of frictional entropy generation in the total entropy generation.

Keywords: Curved square microchannels; Entropy generation; Viscous dissipation; Numerical simulation; Laminar flow; Heat transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.06.060

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