Free convection between series of vertical-parallel plates with embedded line heat sources Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Laminar free convective heat transfer in channels formed between series of vertical parallel plates with embedded line heat source was studied numerically. These channels resemble cooling passages in electronic. equipment. The effect of a repeated boundary condition and wall conduction on mass flow rate (M), maximum surface temperature h,max & c,max), and average surface Nusselt number (Nuh & Nuc) is discussed. Calculations were made for Gr*=10 to 106, K=0.1, 1, 10, & 100, and t/B=0.1 & 0.3. The effect of a repeated boundary condition decreases the maximum hot surface temperature and increases the maximum cold surface temperature. The effect of a repeated boundary condition with wall conduction increases the mass flow rate. The maximum increase in mass flow rate due to wall conduction is found to be 155%. The maximum decrease in average hot surface Nusselt number due to wall conduction (t/B and K) occurs at Gr*=106 and is 18%. Channels subjected to a repeated boundary condition approach that of a symmetrically heated channel subjected to uniform wall temperature conditions at K100.

published proceedings

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

author list (cited authors)

  • Kim, S. H., Anand, N. K., & Fletcher, L. S.

complete list of authors

  • Kim, SH||Anand, NK||Fletcher, LS

publication date

  • December 1989