Three dimensional freezing around a coolant-carrying tube

• DOI: 10.1007/s00231-010-0651-1
• Publication Date: 2010-08-14T07:44:01Z
• Authors: M. Sugawara; Y. Komatsu; T. Makabe; H. Beer
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

The 3-D freezing of water around a coolant carrying horizontal tube placed in an adiabatic rectangular cavity is investigated mainly by means of a numerical analysis. The results are not sensitive to the coolant flow velocity and the tube length, but are very responsive to the coolant inlet temperature and the initial water temperature. The numerical analysis predicts fairly experimental results without introducing a heat transfer coefficient.