1978 年 20 巻 8 号 p. 583-590
Natural convective heat transfer in horizontal annular thermal insulation layer which are vital in very high temperature reactor (VHTR) piping technologies are analyzed.
The product of Rayleigh number and Darcy number RaDa and the ratio of outer and inner radius of the annular layer r0/ri are found to be governing parameters of the mean heat transfer characteristics.
Relatlve increase of mean effective thermal conductivity(λe/λ)m is formulated from numerical analysis as follows:
(λe/λ)m=0.168(r0/ri-0.924)(RaDa)1/2, (1.25≤r0/ri≤3.0, (λe/λ)m≥1).
In the region for (λe/λ)m≥1, the amplitude of local heat flux and effective conductivity increase notably With RaDa and r0/ri, Because of mentioned above, thermal design of annular insulation with empirical thermal conduction model is found to be insufficient.