HEAT TRANSFERPREDICTIONS AROUND THREE HEATED CYLINDERS BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL PLATES

Abstract

The objective of this article is to investigate the heat transfer of convective flow across three heated cylinders arranged in an isosceles right-angled triangle between two parallel plates. The variations in drag coefficient and time-averaged Nusselt number around the surface of the three cylinders as well as the surface-averaged values of the time-averaged Nusselt number for each cylinder are investigated. This investigation is considered under the conditions where the gap-to-diameter ratio is changed (0.5 to 1.25) with forced convection (Re = 100 to 300) and mixed convection (Gr = 80,000 and 200,000). The maximum value of surface- and time-averaged Nusselt number for both forced convection and mixed convection is obtained at a gap-to-diameter ratio equal to 0.75 among the gap-to-diameter ratios considered in this article.