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Numerical investigations of convective heat transfer for lattice settings in brick tunnel Kiln: CFD simulation with experimental validation

Thermal Science and Engineering Progress • 2021
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Authors HA Refaey; Mathkar A Alharthi; MR Salem; Ali A Abdel-Aziz; HE Abdelrahman; MA Karali
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Journal Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
Publisher Elsevier
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publication.type International
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Abstract
The flow characteristics and heat transfer around brick model settings are very important fields of investigation to get over the problem of energy consumption and production process. The present paper introduces a numerical investigation of convective heat transfer for lattice settings in brick tunnel kiln. A numerical CFD analysis using the ANSYS-FLUENT package is used to simulate convective heat and fluid flow inside the cooling zone of the tunnel kiln. Three different settings are simulated and validated with published data. In addition, a fourth new setting is designed and simulated numerically. The results reveal that using CFD k-ω BSL turbulent model gives a good agreement with the published experimental data compared to the other turbulence models. Therefore, a new design of bricks used in buildings could be produced by examining it firstly using CFD. It can be used in study new settings and give