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Numerical Study of Natural Convection Heat Transfer from a Horizontal Plate using Solid, Hollow and Hollow/Perforated Pin Fins

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Applied Mechanics

Abstract

Natural convection heat transfer from circular solid, hollow and hollow/perforated pin fin arrays with different geometry is studied numerically using ANSYS 16.0. The geometric dependence of heat transfer from heat sinks of solid, hollow and hollow/perforated fins with staggered arrangement, involved on a fixed area heated base plate is discussed. To solve governing equations (mass, momentum and energy), a SIMPLE code is developed using control volume approach. The second order upwind technique is used. The results were performed for a range of Rayleigh number, 9.3×106> Ra> 1.63×107. It presented that the performance of the solid fin heat sink is higher than the hollow ones and Nu for the hollow/perforated fin heat sink is higher than that for the solid fin heat sink. It is also investigated that hollow/perforated fin array with inner-to-outer diameter ratio (Di/Do=1/2) and perforation diameter (dp=6 mm) is the best sample giving the maximum performance and less amount of weight compared to the corresponding solid ones.

DOI

10.21608/njbs.2021.202757

Keywords

Perforated/hollow pin fin, Heat sink, Nusselt number, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Authors

First Name

A.

Last Name

Mousa

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Nile Higher Institute for Engineering and Technology, Mansoura, Egypt

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ahmousa14@gmail.com

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Mansoura

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1

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1

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28542

Issue Date

2021-08-01

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2021-11-02

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2021-08-01

Page Start

35

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48

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2805-2323

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2805-2331

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2,143

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Nile Journal of Basic Science

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23 Jan 2023