Author： Su Jian da Silva Neto Antônio José
Publisher： Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISSN： 1521-0634
Source： Numerical Heat Transfer Part A: Applications, Vol.40, Iss.7, 2001-12, pp. : 751-766
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Abstract
An inverse heat convection problem is solved for simultaneous estimation of unknown inlet temperature and wall heat flux in a thermally developing, hydrodynamically developed turbulent flow in a circular pipe based on temperature measurements obtained at several different locations in the stream. The direct problem of turbulent forced convection is solved with a finite difference method with appropriate algebraic turbulence modelling. Although we seek for two unknown functions, we formulate the inverse problem as one of parameter estimation through the representation of the unknown inlet temperature profile and the wall heat flux distribution by one-dimensional finite element interpolation. Nodal values of the inlet temperature and the wall heat flux at chosen positions are determined as unknown parameters through the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm for minimization procedure. Numerical results for several testing cases with different magnitudes of measurement errors are examined by using simulated experimental data. The effects of the number and the locations of the temperature measurement points are discussed.
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