Heat Transfer Characteristics and Entropy Generation in Cascaded Air Cavity

  • Authors

    • Said M. A. Ibrahim Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering Al-Azhar University
    • Salah El-Din El-Morshedy Reactors Department, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt
    • Abdelfatah Abdelmaksoud Reactors Department, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.14714

    Received date: June 27, 2018

    Accepted date: August 29, 2018

    Published date: September 24, 2018

  • Abstract

    In reality every thermodynamic process is an irreversible process. All sort of processes have this kind of macroscopic and microscopic energy loss. Every system in a thermodynamic process generates finite amount of entropy. The entropy generation is presently studied for vertical cavity with different configurations. The effect of cavity walls temperature difference, cavity cascading, and cascading positions on the overall values of entropy generation are investigated and reported. An important analogy between this work and thermodynamic analysis of Carnot is observed.

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    Ibrahim, S. M. A., El-Morshedy, S. E.-D., & Abdelmaksoud, A. (2018). Heat Transfer Characteristics and Entropy Generation in Cascaded Air Cavity. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7(4), 2533-2540. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.14714