Study of thermo-fluid phenomena with uncertainties by making use of interactive computational-experimental methodology

Abstract

A procedure using the generalized least squares method was applied to a simple convective heat transfer problem. The potential of the procedure as a tool to facilitate an interactive computational-experimental methodologies (ICEME) was presented. Possibilities were pointed out to reduce experimental inaccuracy and to find the most probable value and its uncertainty of calculated results. Some numerical results of convective heat transfer for a fully developed state of laminar flow in a circular tube have been presented and the usefulness of the studied approach is demonstrated for problems with uncertainties.