Solving the coupled thermal problems and the thermal load transfer between a fluid and a solid body

Abstract

Some questions concerning the development and implementation of software designed for the numerical solution of coupled thermal analysis problems are considered. The thermal load transfer between computational modules, a formulation of boundary conditions on the fluid-solid interface, and the implementation of some additional capabilities to save computer time are discussed. The numerical results obtained for the temperature distribution in a free rotating disk and for the metal and fluid temperature fields inside a cavity bounded by stationary and rotational disks are compared with experimental data and with the theoretical dependencies.