Published in

Elsevier, Energy Procedia, (61), p. 463-467, 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.1149

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Entropy Generation Analysis in Convective-radiative Cooling Composite Walls with Temperature-dependent Thermal Conductivity and Internal Heat Generation

Journal article published in 2014 by Mohsen Torabi, Kaili Zhang ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Published version: archiving allowed
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

This work analyses entropy generation in composite walls which lose heat with both convection and radiation, simultaneously. Temperature-dependent thermal conductivities and internal heat generations are assumed for both materials. The nonlinear system of differential equations is solved with the differential transformation method (DTM) which is a semi-analytical technique. The temperature and entropy generation data derived from the DTM are validated against analytical solution for convective composite walls with temperature-independent thermal conductivities and internal heat generations. In the view of the fact that composite walls are one of the classical examples in many scientific communities, the local and total entropy generations presented in this study can be useful addition for many scientific and engineering fields where one wants to minimize the irreversibility of the system.