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Convection in Partial vacuum

Convection in Partial vacuum

Convection in Partial vacuum

(OP)
There's a polynomial equation for Kinematic viscosity at different temperatures
But what if I we pressure and temperature both are changed, for example in partial vacuum
Is it possible to find viscosity of air at 3pa pressure and 200K temperature?

How to find convective heat transfer coefficient of air at low temperatures and low pressures?

Kindly help
Thank you

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

Is this a school assignment (or a home assigment for school)? If not, then please provide some more details about your issue so we can fully understand your problem. Playing "20 questions" when only part of the information is provided is very frustrating.

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

(OP)
i was asking for a function which will help me to find viscosity at given pressure and temperature

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

craghav

You didn't answer my question. You didn't provide any information about your problem. As IRStuff indicated, it's not just a simple formula.

When you don't write anything but "I want a function" then I come away with "must be a student who doesn't have a real world problem." Prove me wrong.

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

(OP)
EnergyMix

Sorry for late response, firstly it is not a school assignment, I like heat transfer so I'm trying to learn and understand the subject more
I'm trying to understand the heat coming out from a Thermos flask, after the partial evacuation of gap in between flasks it might come around 5pa or less, so at low pressure the viscosity of gas trapped inside may change, which in turn changes Coefficient of Convective Heat Transfer... I'm trying to determine the connective heat transfer in partial vacuum

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

The dominant heat transfer mechanism is radiation, coupled with conduction. Convection plays a trivial role at such conditions (and it is not possible in an ideal vacuum).

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

(OP)
Ione, I understand convection is small in this situation, I'm trying to find out how small

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

The search engine on this site DOES WORK: thread391-270659: Air convection between two plates for low vacuum, 0.1 to 100 mbar, which leads to https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/alma/aboutALMA..., wherein there is a graph of thermal conductivity of air at subatmospheric pressures. Since the convective coefficient in the conventional model is directly proportional to the thermal conductivity of air, you can calculate the convection coefficient.

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RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

If you are looking for some data you can take a glance at the paper in the link below

http://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCE2010/WCE2010_p...

The values of pressure and temperature you’ve quoted in your OP are lower than those reported in the paper above, but you can clearly see the trend of the convection/radiation heat transfer coefficient ratio.

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

(OP)
How viscosity of Air is effected in reduced pressures? The polynomial function viscosity will give viscosity at any temperature,
http://hpce.iitm.ac.in/website/Manuals/Fluent_6.3/...

But how to find viscosity of air when both temp and pressure are changed? The viscosity of air at partial vacuum

RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

Well, I found this one in my XL function collection.

C = .0001 * (7.77 + .0063 * SG * 28.964) * t ^ 1.5 / (122.4 + 12.9 * SG * 28.964 + t)
X1 = 2.57 + 1914.5 / t + .0095 * SG * 28.964
Y = 1.11 + .04 * X1
u = C * Exp(X1 * (pg / 62.43) ^ Y) 'centipoise
ulb = u * .000672 'LB/FT-SEC

'where
' SG = specific gravity of gas (ref air)
' t = temperature of gas Rº
' pr = reduced pressure of gas
' tr = reduced temperature of gas
' p = absolute pressure psia
' z = compressibility factor
' pg = MASS density of gas lbm/ft3
' u = viscosity of gas in centipoise
' ulb = viscosity of gas in lbs/ft-sec

I have lost the reference, or it's from one of my books in my hard copy library at my home base.

I decided to do a quick search and found these. I haven't looked at them in detail yet, but they seem to be promising.

http://www.pe.tamu.edu/blasingame/data/0_TAB_Publi...

http://www.pe.tamu.edu/blasingame/data/z_web_Archi..._[Viscosity_of_Natural_Gases_(1970)].pdf

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RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

Who?

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RE: Convection in Partial vacuum

(OP)
BingINch, thank you very much, I'll try to understand how it arrived.. :)

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