Affiliation:
1. Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21524, Egypt e-mail:
2. Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Pharos University, Alexandria 21648, Egypt e-mail:
Abstract
The steady forced convection between two stationary parallel circular disks in a radial sink flow cooling system is investigated numerically. This investigation is devoted to study the effect of swirling flow and/or grooved surface on the heat transfer and on the thermo-hydraulic parameter. A wide range of inlet Reynolds number (Re), 100 ≤ Re ≤ 105, inlet swirl ratio (S), 0 ≤ S ≤ 20, and the gap spacing ratio (G), 0.01 ≤ G ≤ 0.1 is considered in the study. The rectangular grooves are characterized by ribs with three dimensionless lengths: height (t/δ), 0.1 ≤ t/δ ≤ 0.35, the interval spacing between ribs (i/Ro), 0.025 ≤ i/Ro ≤ 0.1, and the width of rib (w/Ro), 0.025 ≤ w/Ro ≤ 0.1. The results of the heat transfer analysis indicate that the swirling flow enhances the cooling system for plain and ribbed surfaces. However, the thermal hydraulic study indicated that the swirling flow is beneficial for plain surfaces only. And the ribs are beneficial with pure radial inflow.
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,General Engineering,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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