Heat Transfer Enhancement of Forced Convection in Horizontal Channel with Heated Block due to Oscillation of Incoming Flow

Abstract

The study in question consists to amplify the hydrodynamic and thermal instabilities by imposed pulsation during forced convection of air cooling of nine identical heated blocks simulate electronic components mounted on horizontal channel. The finite volume method has been used to solve the governing equations of unsteady forced convection. This approach uses control volume for velocities that are staggered with respect to those for temperature and pressure. The numerical procedure called SIMPLER is used to handle the pressure-velocity coupling. The results show that the time averaged Nusselt number for each heated block depends on the pulsation frequencies and is always larger than in the steady-state case. The new feature in this work is that we obtained a short band of frequencies which the enhancement of heat transfer of all electronic components is greater than 20 % compared with steady non pulsation flow. In addition, the gain in heat transfer Emax attainted the maximum value for the central blocks. Our numerical results were compared with other investigations and found to agree well with experimental data.