DYNAMIC RESPONSE ANYLSIS OF

HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUD FLOW

PAST OVER TWO CYLINDERS IN
STAGGERED ARRANGEMENT
Presented by:
Mubashar Ali 14-ME-106
Muhammad Hamza 14-ME-119
Awais Murtaza 14-ME-123
Hamad Shafiq 14-ME-154
Zeeshan Tahir 14-ME-166
 Description of Problem Statement

■ Our problem is the investigation of heat

transfer over two cylinders placed in Staggered
arrangement
■ Variation in the diameter and position of 2nd
Cylinder
■ Cylinders are in laminar regime
■ Reynolds number is 200
 OBJECTIVES

■ Lift and Drag Coefficients

■ Temperature contours
■ Vorticity contours
 OBJECTIVES

■ Wake pattern
■ Enhancement in Heat Transfer Vortex Street
■ Effective Cylinder Arrangement
 Previous Studies

■ E. Buyruk in 2002, study about heat transfer on tandem cylinders

1) Pitch ratio (gap, L/D)
2) Reynold’s Number
3) Arrangement (staggered)
4) Thermal Boundary Layer(thinner)
 Oscillating flow

■ Gongnan Xie and Banget Sunden in 2017 , study about turbulence

“As amplitude of oscillating flow increases, value of Nusselt number increases
because vortex street expands and vibrates in longer region which leads to
stronger flow mixing and higher heat transfer. They also concluded that
Nusselt’s number of downstream is 80% of the upstream.”
 Flow regime

D. Sumner (2010) identified three flow regimes based on L/D

 Extended body regime , where 1.0 < L/D < 2.0
 Re-attachment regime , where 2.0 < L/D < 5.0
 Co-shedding regime , where L/D > 5.0
Extended Body Regime
where 1.0 < L/D < 2.0

Re-attachment regime
where 2.0 < L/D < 5.0

Co-shedding regime
where L/D > 5.0
 HOW WILL WE ANALYSE?

1. Pre-Processing
Modeling
Meshing
Boundary conditions
2. Processing
Analysis (FLUENT®)
3. Post-Processing
Results & Graphs
 Pre-Processing
MODELING
■ Modeling using GAMBIT
■ Vertex(point), edge, face

Basic Cube (Volume)

 Geometry

■ Cylinder are placed in Staggered Arrangement

■ Variation in size of 2nd cylinder
■ Center of 1st cylinder is at (0,0)
■ Fixed domain is 40D upstream and 80D downstream
■ Sizes of 2nd cylinder 0.25D, 0.5D, 0.75D & 1D
■ Distance from center is (3.595,0.4785)
■ Inflation on 2nd cylinder with first layer at 0.0002D
Schematic
Domain
Blocking
Inflation
 Pre-Processing
MESHING
■ The representation of an object in the form a large number of finite elements is known as
meshing.

Single Cylinder Triangular mesh Single Cylinder Quadrilateral mesh

 Types of Meshing

Face Meshing Volume Meshing

Quadrilateral Triangular

With four With eight With nine With three With six
nodes nodes nodes nodes nodes
Face Meshing
Elements

Quadrilateral
Triangle Quadrilateral

Triangular Mesh Elements Quadrilateral Mesh Elements

 Meshing

■ Quadrilateral Mesh with 4 nodes is used

■ Step wise mesh (edge, face)
■ Dense meshing area and coarse mesh area
■ Elements varied from 0.1 to 0.15 million
Fluid

Mesh Dense Area

 Pre-Processing
Boundary Conditions
■ Properties of fluid used (Density, Dynamic Viscosity)
■ Reynold number is taken 200
■ Prandtl’s number is 7.47
■ Temperature of the Fluid is 300K and temperature of the Cylinders is 302K
■ Cylinders are taken as wall
■ Inlet is Velocity Inlet and Outlet is Pressure Outlet
■ Upper and Lower boundaries are taken as Symmetry
 Processing
Analysis
■ Import to FLUENT®
■ Control Parameter
■ Solution Initialization
Mesh Imported in Ansys Fluent®
Simulations
Post-Processing
Temperature Contours
Vorticity Magnitude Contours
 Flow Time Vs Coefficient of Drag
■ Drag produced on cylinder 1
ranged (1.0863,1.0923)
■ Cd= 1.089±0.003
 Flow Time vs Lift Coefficient
■ Lift Coefficient on Cylinder 1
ranged (-0.0085,-0.00131)
■ Cl= -0.0049±0.036
 Flow Time vs Coefficient of Drag
■ Drag Coefficient on Cylinder 2
ranged (0.5828-0.64917)
■ Cd= 0.616±0.0332
 Flow Time vs Lift Coefficient
■ Lift Coefficient on Cylinder 2
ranged (-0.2872,-0.122)
■ Cl= -0.2023±0.0803
 Further Work

■ Analysis on remaining meshes

■ Comparison of results
Thank you