Natural Convection heat transfer from a horizontal hollow cylinder having annular fins on the outer surface has been studied numerically. The constant temperature boundary condition was applied at the inner surface of the hollow cylinder. Boussinesq approximation was used with steady and laminar flow. For simulation ANSYS FLUENT was used to solve the discretized system and three dimensional model was prepared in SOLIDWORKS. The present investigation showed us that the analytical solution and numerical solution for unfinned hollow cylinder are very accurate and the cases with fins from 4 to 20 were solved by simulated showing us the pictorial representation of temperature plume and velocity vectors. The plots are shown comparing different thermal parameters such has heat flux, total heat transfer, Rayleigh number, Nusselt number and effectiveness of the system with fins with respect to the number of fins attached to the hollow cylinder.
The present paper provides a thorough numerical study of variation in geometrical parameters that affect the performance of the novel finned-tube type heat exchanger design. The finite volume method was employed to discretize and solve the governing partial differential equations of heat conduction. A wide range of constant convective heat transfer coefficient (5 < h < 200 W/m 2 K) is chosen to reduce the computational time and power, which covers thermal applications of latent thermal energy storage, refrigeration & airconditioning , etc. The effects of the ratio of fin spacing of fins to the outer diameter of the tube (0.1 ≤ δ* ≤ 8), the material of fins (copper and stainless steel) and the ratio of fin thickness to the outer diameter of the tube (0.0333 ≤ t* ≤ 0.4) on the performance parameters namely efficiency (η) and effectiveness (ε) of the fins were studied. Temperature contours for a wide range of geometries were depicted. The maximum effectiveness of copper fins is 304.62, whereas that for steel fin is 219.33 with the optimum dimensionless fin thickness reported to be t* = 0.1666. Furthermore, the maximum overall efficiencies of fins were 99.98% and 99.62% for copper and steel fins, respectively.
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