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Mohammad Zakir Hossain

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Sadrul A.K.D. Islam

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS IN SINE, TRIANGULAR, AND ARC-SHAPED CHANNELS

ABSTRACT
Time dependent Navier-Stokes and energy equations have been solved to investigate the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics in wavy channels. Three different types of two dimensional wavy geometries (e.g. sine-shaped, triangular, and arc-shaped) are considered. All of them are of single wave and have same geometric dimensions. Periodic boundary conditions are used to attain fully developed flow. The flow in the channels has been observed to be steady up to a critical Reynolds number, which depends on the geometric configuration. Beyond the critical Reynolds number a self-sustained oscillatory flow has been observed. As a result of this oscillation, there is increased mixing between core and the near-wall fluids, thereby increasing the heat transfer rate. For the same geometric dimensions, flow becomes unsteady at relatively lower Reynolds number in the arc-shaped channel. .
KEYWORDS
numerical solution, fluid flow, heat transfer, wavy channel, oscillatory flow
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2006-03-13
PAPER REVISED: 2006-11-25
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2006-11-29
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI0701017H
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2007, VOLUME 11, ISSUE Issue 1, PAGES [17 - 26]
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Numerical investigation of fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics in sine, triangular, and arc-shaped channels

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