Estimation of the influence of inflow turbulence on heat convection from a sphere surface

In the paper, results of an experimental investigation of a heat transfer coefficient on a sphere for different inflow turbulence levels have been presented. The average heat transfer coefficient on the sphere surface appear to be dependent on the turbulence level of flow around the sphere. This effect of influence of the flow structure near the sphere surface on the heat transfer process have been presented. Distributions of heat transfer on spheres of different diameters for different turbulence levels of the inflow have been analyzed. It has been shown that an increase of the inflow turbulence level caused an increase of the average heat transfer coefficient on the sphere surface. The maximum increase of the heat transfer due to growing turbulence has been found to be about 30%.