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T. Lemczyk
R.-Theta Inc.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Tw 1 Parallel P l a t e Channel
comes:
1
N t l j d = - Reb* Pr (8)
2
The plot in Fig. 3 shows the behavior of these two
Developing Flow Asymptote
asymptotes, along with the composite model for the
full range of Reb* from developing to fully-developed
A iiuniber of analytical models and correlations are
flow. The proposed composite niodel approaches the
currently available in tlie heat exchanger literature for
liiniting cases for small a n d large values of Reb* and
siniultaneously developing flow in isotheriiial ducts;
predicts a smooth transition in the interiiiediate re-
however most of these studies are based on a log-mean
gion:
or local temperature difference between the fluid and
the boundary. Sparrow [lo] presents an integral so- 3 < Reb* < 20
lution for laminar forced convection in the entrance The optiniized value of the conibinatioii parani-
region of flat, rectangular ducts, and includes a for- eter, n, in Eq. (12) is determined using data from
niulation for the average Nusselt number based on the a numerical solution of the two-dimensional channel
inlet temperature: problem. Numerical simulations were perforiiied using
FLOTHERM [ll],a commercial, finite volume-based
CFD package. A siinple two-dimensional chaiiiiel was
modeled using a n isothermal, no-slip boundary to sim-
ulate the walls and a uniform velocity distribution at
tlie inlet. Five cases were examined which span tlie
valid for Pr M 1. For a channel length L, tlie Graetz full range of the independent parameter:
iiumber is defined as:
0.26 5 Reb* 5 175
The results of these numerical simulations are shown
along with tlie proposed model in Fig. 4. Based on
where the effective diameter De for parallel plates is this comparison of the model with tlie numerical data,
equivalent t o 2b. T h e developing flow expression is
converted in terms of the previously defined dinien-
sionless parameters to give the developing flow asymp-
tote: 10' ?
N U L= O.664&Pr1f3
composite Model
m=
oi ;.,
Y ' ' '''l'''. '
l- o
Fig. 4 Comparison of Model and Numerical Substituting these expressions into Eq. (14) and sim-
Results for 2D Channel plifying yields:
<
where " u b is the average heat transfer rate for T,,,
T,.Assuming an adiabatic condition a t the fin tip, the
efficiency can be deterniined as follows [ 1 2 ] :
tanh(m H)
'= inH (14)
Heat Sink
Plexiglas -
Shroud
I "I I'I
,Anemometer
Fig. 5 Back-to-back Heat Sink Prototype Assembly Fig. G Schematic of Test Apparatus
1
between the two heat sinks. The heaters were pow-
1
+ (19) ered using a 140 VAC variac resulting in typical line
voltages of 110 V at a current of approximately 4.5 A .
(0.664,pp-1/3,/=)
rn The current flow was sufficiently low that lead losses
in the heater wires were minimal.
U, = 2, 3, 4, 5 , G , 7, 8 m l s
‘1
0
0
0
0 S.V., “Forced Convection Heat Transfer from a
0
0 Shrouded Fin Array with and without Tip Clear-
I , ance,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 100, No. 4.
1978, pp. 572 - 579.
3t
3 0
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