In this study, flow and heat transfer are investigated numerically in the case of three dimensional, incompressible, unsteady, fully developed and laminar flow on semi spheres placed as serials in a communicating converging and diverging channel. The continuity, Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solved numerically by using Ansys Fluent-17.0 software program. Air is taken as working fluid. Inlet temperature of the air and sphere surface temperatures are 300 K and 350 K, respectively. The effects of location of semi spheres to channel at 6 different designs as single and multiple serials and placement types of the spheres according to each other on the heat transfer and pressure drop enhancement for different Re numbers (Re=100, 200, 400 ve 800) are researched. Results are presented as variation of pressure loss coefficient, Nusselt number, amount of total heat transfer, fluid temperature at outlet and thermal performance coefficient (ϕ) with Re number. Also, distributions of temperature,are investigated velocity contours along the channel and velocity vectors for the flow between channels for different Re numbers. As a result, the highest heat transfer increments are obtained for Models 2 and 5 where fluid motion and mixing are better in single and multiple model arrays, respectively. It is considered that cooling performance of electronic equipments having warming problem such as computer case can be increased with semi spheres serials used in study.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | December 31, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 33 Issue: 4 |