Radiation Example Problem Description Radiation heat transfer between concentric cylinders will be modeled in this exa mple.

This is a general version of one of the verification examples converted to metric units. ANSYS Command Listing /PREP7 /TITLE, RADIATION HEAT TRANSFER BETWEEN CONCENTRIC CYLINDERS ANTYPE,STATIC ! this is a general version of VM125 converted to metric rin=2*0.0254 rout=8*0.0254 ndiv=20 arc=360 emis1=0.7 emis2=0.5 T1=700 T2=400 offset=273 stefbolt=5.699*10**(-8) k,1,0,0 k,5,0,0 k,6,0,0,-1 k,7,1 k,8,0,0,1 circle,1,rin,6,7,arc,ndiv CIRCLE,5,rout,8,7,arc,ndiv ET,1,LINK32,,,,,,,1 R,1,1 MP,KXX,1,1 MAT,1 ESIZE,,1 csys,1 lsel,s,loc,x,rin LMESH,ALL lsel,all MP,KXX,2,1 MAT,2 lsel,s,loc,x,rout LMESH,all lsel,all csys,0 FINISH /AUX12 EMIS,1,emis1 EMIS,2,emis2 VTYPE,0 GEOM,1 ! inner cylinder, generated clockwise ! outer cylinder; generated counter-clockwise ! inches to metres

! degrees C ! to convert to degrees K ! metric version ! center of tube 1 ! center of retort

! HEAT CONDUCTING BAR; SUPPRESS SOLUTION OUTPUT ! UNIT CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA (ARBITRARY) ! CONDUCTIVITY of inner cylinder (arbitrary) ! cylindrical coord system

! CONDUCTIVITY of outer cylinder (arbitrary)

! reset to rect coord system

! HIDDEN PROCEDURE FOR VIEW FACTORS ! GEOMETRY SPECIFICATION 2-D

STEF,stefbolt WRITE,VM125 FINISH /PREP7 DOF,TEMP ET,2,MATRIX50,1,,,,,1 TYPE,2 SE,VM125 TOFFST,offset csys,1 nsel,s,loc,x,rout D,ALL,TEMP,T1 nsel,all nsel,s,loc,x,rin D,ALL,TEMP,T2 nsel,all csys,0 FINISH /SOLU SOLVE FINISH

! Stefan-Boltzmann constant ! WRITE RADIATION MATRIX TO FILE VM125.SUB

! SUPERELEMENT (RADIATION MATRIX) ! defines superelement and where its written to ! TEMPERATURE OFFSET FOR ABSOLUTE SCALE ! SELECT OUTER CYLINDER NODES ! T1 = 273 + 700 DEG. K ! SELECT INNER CYLINDER NODES ! T2 = 273 + 400 DEG. K

/POST1 csys,1 nsel,s,loc,x,rin ! SELECT INNER CYLINDER NODES /com /COM,:) :) heat flow from inner to outer :) :) /com PRRSOL ! PRINT HEAT FLOW FROM INNER TO OUTER CYLINDER nsel,all nsel,s,loc,x,rout ! select outer cylinder nodes /com /COM,:) :) heat flow from outer to inner :) :) /com PRRSOL ! PRINT HEAT FLOW FROM OUTER TO INNER CYLINDER FSUM,HEAT ! only from selected nodes !!! nsel,all *GET,Q,FSUM,0,ITEM,HEAT *DIM,LABEL,CHAR,1,2 *DIM,VALUE,,1,3 LABEL(1,1) = 'Q(W/m) ' ! the 1 below is for unit length numer=stefbolt*2*pi*rin*1*((offset+T1)**4-(offset+T2)**4) exact=numer/(1/emis1+(rin/rout)*(1/emis2-1)) *VFILL,VALUE(1,1),DATA,exact *VFILL,VALUE(1,2),DATA,Q *VFILL,VALUE(1,3),DATA,ABS(Q/exact) /COM /COM,--------------- VM125 RESULTS COMPARISON -------------/COM, /COM, | TARGET | ANSYS | RATIO /COM, *VWRITE,LABEL(1,1),VALUE(1,1),VALUE(1,2),VALUE(1,3) (1X,A8,' ',F10.1,' ',F10.1,' ',1F5.3) /COM,------------------------------------------------------/COM,

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