Author:
Dung S. C.,Tzeng S. H.,Yang S. A.
Abstract
AbstractThis study aims at analyzing entropy generation rate of saturated vapor flowing slowly onto and condensed on an isothermal sphere/horizontal cylinder. We derive an expression for entropy generation, which accounts for the resultant action of specified irreversibilities of film-wise condensation outside a cylinder/sphere. The result shows that local entropy generation rate increases with Brinkman group parameters. As Rayleigh group parameters increase, dimensionless heat transfer coefficient is enhanced, but entropy generation number is augmented too. Heat transfer irreversibility dominates over the film flow friction irreversibility in the upper half of a sphere, and vice versa for the lower half of a sphere. As for a cylinder, heat transfer irreversibility dominates over film flow friction irreversibility except around the middle way of streamwise length for the cases of Brinkman group parametersBr/ ψ≥ 0.75.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Mechanical Engineering,Condensed Matter Physics
Cited by
1 articles.
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