Numerical Analysis of Flow and Heat Transfer for Semi Spheres Placed As Multiple Serials In a Channel

Koray Karabulut, Doğan Engin Alnak, Ferhat Koca, Coşkun Özalp
2018 European Mechanical Science  
Excessive heating of electronic equipments may cause both decreasing thermal performance of system and undesirable consequences such as increased thermal stresses and mechanical defects in the system. In the literature, there are many studies including applications of thermal analysis and technologies in order to make cooling more effective. In this study, flow and heat transfer were investigated numerically in the case of three dimensional, incompressible, fully developed and laminar flow for
more » ... emi spheres placed as multiple serials in a channel. The continuity, Navier-Stokes and energy equations were solved numerically by using Ansys Fluent-17.0 software program. Air was taken as working fluid. Inlet temperature of the air and sphere surface temperatures were 300 K and 350 K, respectively. The effects of location of semi spheres as multiple serials, placement angle and positions of sphres according to each other on the pressure drop and heat transfer enhancement for case of different Re numbers (Re=100, 200, 400 ve 800) were researched. The obtained results showed that the positions of spheres had a great importance in the case of placement as multiple serials of semi spheres.
doi:10.26701/ems.377446 fatcat:w5nbholfiff7tazwhi5icon46e