Heat transfer—a review of 1976 literature

INTRODUCTION THIS review surveys results that have been published in various fields of heat transfer during 1976. As in the past, the number ofpapers published during that period was such that only a selection can be included in this review. A more complete listing of papers is available in the heat-transfer bibliographies published periodically in this journal. The Sixteenth National Heat Transfer Conference was held 8-11 August 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri. The recipient of the Max Jakob Memorial Award, R. G. Deissler, presented an invited lecture, ‘“Tornadoes and other atmospheric vortices”. A lecture entitled “An inquiry of selected topics on heat-exchange design” was given by A. C. Mueller, who received the 1975 Donald Q. Kern Award. A third invited lecture on “Water reactor safety research programs” was presented by L. S. Tong. Twenty-eight sessions treated, among other subjects, interfacial phenomena, internal heat generation, process heat transfer, thermonuclear power, and heat transfer in foodstuffs. The papers presented at the conference are available as preprints and many of these will be published in the Journal ofHeat Transfer or in the publication series of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The 25th Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Institute was held 21-23 June 1976 at the University of California, Davis, California. An invited lecture by P. Bradshaw discussed progress and problems in the development of turbulence models; another lecture by R. Davis treated numerical methods for interacting boundary layers. Five sessions were concerned with thermal convection, two-phase flow and boiling, compressible and turbulent flow, combustion, and aerospace heat transfer problems. Proceedings are available through Stanford University Press. The Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization assembled a group of experts to review research needs on thermal energy storage and to make recommendations for future research. One of the panels discussed heat transfer and thermal energy transport. A report of the conference is available through the Scientific Affairs Division, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, Belgium. An International Solar Energy Conference was held 15-20 August 1976 at Winnipeg, Canada under the title “sharing the Sun 76”. Many of the papers presented included heat-transfer problems. An advanced course and the 1976 International Seminar were organized by the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer 23 August through 4 September 1976 at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. The summer course was entitled “Heat Disposal from Power Generation”, and dealt primarily with cooling towers and climatic modifications by energy production. The seminar, “Turbulent buoyant convection”, discussed plumes, stratified fluids, air and smoke movements in buildings, and combustion phenomena. The proceedings of these conferences will be published by Scripta Book Company, Washington, D.C. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers focussed attention on plasma chemical processes in four sessions of its Eighty-Second National Meeting held 29 August through 1 September 1976 at Atlantic City, New Jersey, with heat-transfer information included in some of the papers. Other sessions dealt with transport processes in the oceans and with interfacial phenomena. The 97th ASME Winter Annual Meeting, held 5-10 December 1976 at New York City, included in its program eleven sessions organized by the Heat Transfer Division. Topics ranged from application of computer technology through electric effects, liquid metal fast breeder reactors, thermal energy storage, pipe line heat transfer, heat exchangers, to solar collectors. Reprints of the papers are available from ASME Headquarters and many of them will also be published in the Journal of Heat Transfer. The dinner speaker, P. E. Glaser, talked on ‘The future of power from space”. Heat Transfer Memorial Awards were presented to W. H. Giedt and R. Viskanta. A number of books dealing with heat transfer or including heat-transfer topics have appeared on the market. They are listed in the bibliographic portion of this review. Volume 12 of the series, Advances in Heat Transfer, published by Academic Press, New York, became available in 1976. It contains contributions on dry cooling towers, heat transfer in flows with drag reduction, molecular gas band radiation, and a perceptive on electrochemical transport phenomena. Developments in heat-transfer research during 1976 can be characterized by the following highlights: solidliquid phase change, fins, and contact resistance found special attention in the area of heat conduction. A number of numerical solutions have also been reported. Flow and heat transfer in complex passages and 1097