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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 76, 2019 - Issue 6
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Effect of thermal boundary condition on forced convection from circular cylinders

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Pages 420-437 | Received 20 Nov 2018, Accepted 26 Jun 2019, Published online: 24 Jul 2019
 

Abstract

Researchers commonly assume that the effect of constant temperature and constant heat flux thermal boundary condition on forced convection from a circular cylinder is negligible. Such claim was assessed using Computational Fluid Dynamics for Reynolds number, Re, ≤ 3,000. The flow was directly solved without modeling for Re ≤ 300, and Large Eddy Simulation was used for Re = 1,000 and Re = 3,000. Constant property simulations were done for Prandtl number of 0.7. Fluid dynamics parameters: drag coefficient, Strouhal number, separation angle and recirculation length, were used to assess the accuracy of the simulations. The main parameter of interest, the Nusselt number, is higher locally for constant heat flux than constant temperature for 60 ≤ Re ≤ 3,000. In addition, the ratio of overall Nusselt number for constant heat flux to that for constant temperature increases for Re < 30 and is ∼1.15 between 30 ≤ Re ≤ 3,000, showing that thermal boundary condition has significant effect on heat transfer from circular cylinder. Finally, the study developed empirical correlations relating overall Nusselt number to studied Reynolds number range.

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Funding

This study was funded by Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), AltaLink, ATCO Electric and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), CRD Project 366077601.

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