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- Title
Constructal design of flat tubes cooled by natural convection.
- Authors
Mustafa, Ahmed Waheed; Suffer, Kadhim H.; Filaih, Ameer B.
- Abstract
A set of vertical flat tubes cooled by natural convection and placed in a finite size space is designed based on the constructal law. The constraint in this design is the size of the space where the tubes are placed. The freedom inside the space is the distance between the tubes. When the constructal law is applied, the optimal distance between the tubes is determined. Rayleigh numbers are taken as (Ra = 10³, 104, and 105 ). The dimensionless tube diameter (tube diameter/tube height) is changed from (D* = 0.2) to (D* = 1) (circular tube). All the tubes are heated to the same wall temperature. The air used to cool the tubes has a Prandtl number (Pr = 0.72). The equations of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy for steady, two‐dimensional, and incompressible flow are solved by the finite volume method. The result showed that the best or optimal distance at a given Rayleigh number remains constant for all tube diameters. The result also showed that the number of the small diameter tubes must be more than the number of the large‐diameter tubes for the same Rayleigh number and the same size of the space to make the heat flow from the tubes to the coolant easier.
- Subjects
FINITE volume method; RAYLEIGH number; TUBES; PRANDTL number; CONSERVATION of mass; NATURAL heat convection; INCOMPRESSIBLE flow
- Publication
Heat Transfer, 2021, Vol 50, Issue 3, p2049
- ISSN
2688-4534
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/htj.21968