NUMERICAL STUDY FOR INTERRUPTED RECTANGULAR FINS IN A NATURAL CONVECTION FIELD
Volume 11, Issue 2, Spring 2018, Pages 216-228
Abbas Jassem Jubear, Ali Hameed Abd
Abstract The heat sink with vertically rectangular interrupted fins investigated numerically in a natural convection field, and with steady-state heat transfer. Numerical study has been conducted using ANSYS Fluent software (R16.1) in order to develop a 3-D numerical model. The dimensions of fins are (305 mm length, 100 mm width, 17 mm height, and 9.5 mm space between fins). The number of fins used on the surface are eight. In this study, the heat input that is used as follow (20, 40, 60, 80, 100, and 120 watts). The study is focused on interrupted rectangular fins with different arrangement of fins. The results show that the addition of interruption fins in various arrangements will improve the thermal performance of the heat sink, and through the results, a better interruption rate obtained as an equation.
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF NATURAL CONVECTION IN A LAMINAR TWO – DIMENSIONAL FLOW THROUGH A VERTICAL RECTANGULAR DUCT.
Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 2010, Pages 51-63
Abstract This research uesd to compute the flow field variables of natural convection air flow based on finite difference computational fluid dynamic methods. The problem considered deals with a two-dimensional internal, laminer , isothermal flow over a vertical rectangular duct. In this work, governing equations were solved using finite different forward explicit technique. The flow characterstics are evaluated for Prandtl number at 0.7 and dimensionless inlet velocity equals to 0.005. The results explain that the heat transfer rate is a strong function of flow velocity also the hydrodynamic properties such as pressure, temperature and velocity are increased when the flow moves upward the duct.The results showed a good agreement with other published results.