Heat and Mass Transfer Australasia

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-099-3

The Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, held in Sydney in December 1996, is the sixth in an ongoing series. Previous Conferences have been organized in various parts of Australia by ad hoc committees specifically convened for that purpose. This Conference was conducted under the auspices of the Australasian Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society, a Technical Society of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and it is anticipated that future Conferences will likewise be sponsored by that body.
The Conference was held in honor of Emeritus Professor Graham de Vahl Davis, to celebrate his significant contribution to the understanding of natural convection, and his pioneering and continuing work in developing computational techniques for research in heat and mass transfer.
These proceedings contain the text of six invited keynote papers and 63 contributed papers. The papers have been organized into 12 sections, preceded by a keynote paper wherever possible. Since the members of the Organizing Committee believe that the Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference is an important international event, all papers were reviewed by at least two reviewers, and authors were required to incorporate the suggested alterations. Furthermore, the final versions of the papers were required to include any modifications which resulted from the discussion at the Conference. Consequently, these proceedings are being published after the Conference, and represent a record of significant work.

Table of Contents

Preface John A. Reizes DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.10 xi pages

Convection

Unnatural Natural Convection Graham de Vahl Davis DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.20 pages 1-16
The Effect of Humidity on Natural Convection in Vertical Air Filled Cavities Geordie D. McBain, Jonathan A. Harris, D.J. Close , Harry Suehrcke DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.70 pages 49-56
A Dual Grid Method for Radiation and Convection in an Enclosure L. Zhao, Eddie Leonardi, Graham de Vahl Davis DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.130 pages 97-104
ANNULAR FREE CONVECTION HEAT EXCHANGER FOR SOLAR WATER HEATING SYSTEMS A. Nasr, Graham Lindsay Morrison, Masud Behnia DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.140 pages 105-112
Effect of Large Viscosity Variation on Heat Transfer in Rayleigh-Benard Convection Hossein Khorasanizadeh, Eddie Leonardi, John A. Reizes DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.150 pages 113-120

Conduction and Joint Thermal Conductance

Design and Fabrication of a Rig for Measuring Thermal Contact Conductance Eliseo Villanueva, Chakravarti V. Madhusudana, James Beck, Masud Behnia DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.180 pages 143-150

Combustion Heat Transfer

Heat Transfer in Fires

An Integral Model for Piloted Ignition of Wet Wood Behdad Moghtaderi, Vasily Novozhilov, David F. Fletcher DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.260 pages 221-226
Heat and Mass Transfer During Piloted Ignition of Wood Behdad Moghtaderi, Vasily Novozhilov, David F. Fletcher DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.270 pages 227-231
Extinguishment of Burning Solid Materials by a Water Spray Vasily Novozhilov, Behdad Moghtaderi, J.H. Kent, David F. Fletcher DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.300 pages 249-256
Thermophysical Properties for a Three-dimensional Pyrolysis Model for Wood Richard Kowk Kit Yuen, R. T. Casey, Graham de Vahl Davis, Eddie Leonardi, Guan Heng Yeoh, V. Chandrasekaran, S.J. Grubits DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.310 pages 257-268
THE EROSION OF THERMALLY STRATIFIED FLUID BY BUOYANT JETS Michael J. Tierney, T.R. Bott, R S Banim DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.320 pages 269-274
Extinction of Diffusion Flames by Ultrafine Water Mist Doped with Metal Chlorides Hayden Shilling, Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski, Eric M. Kennedy DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.330 pages 275-282

Heat Transfer in Engines

Heat Transfer in Two Phase Flow

Numerical Modelling Of Waste Heat Recovery Boiler M. Meyyappan, M.P. Schwarz, J. Perry DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.360 pages 303-311
Phase change phenomena in a heat pipe evaporator loan Sauciuc, Aliakbar Akbarzadeh, Peter Johnson, Chris Dixon DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.390 pages 327-335
Heat Transfer Modelling of Submerged Gas Injection into a Molten Metal Bath L. Cavanagh, Y. Li, T. Evans, John Lucas, Geoffrey M. Evans DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.430 pages 359-365

Environmental Heat Transfer

Heat Exchangers

Heat and Mass Transfer in Drying

Experimental Heat Transfer

Turbulence

General Papers in Heat and Mass Transfer

On the Chemical Inhibition of Flames Assaad R. Masri, B. B. Dally DOI: 10.1615/978-1-56700-099-3.700 pages 587-593