Combined active-passive heat transfer enhancement for a partial superhydrophobic oscillating cylinder

Abstract

Numerical simulation of convective heat transfer over a stationary and transversely oscillating partial super-hydrophobic cylinder has been performed using OpenFOAM libraries. Superhydrophobicity of the cylinder surface has been addressed by means of a partial slip boundary condition. Applying the slip condition to the surface of the stationary cylinder causes the drag and the rms lift coefficients to reduce by 46 and 75 percent, respectively. It also augments the average Nusselt number by 55 percent accompanied by a 21 percent increase of the natural shedding frequency. The partially superhydrophobic cylinder has also been investigated and the effects of slip on different sections of the cylinder surface have been analyzed. Considering the reduction of force coefficients, it is shown that the application of slip over a 135 • segment of the surface is an optimum case, resulting in a 47 and 85 percent decrease of the drag and the rms lift coefficients, respectively. However, the fully superhydrophobic cylinder provides higher heat transfer rates. Regarding the transversely oscillating cylinder, superhydrophobicity extends the primary synchronization region, and also exhibits different wake dynamics behavior compared to the no-slip case. The slip over surfaces also causes the average Nusselt number to become nearly 6 times greater than the no-slip oscillating cylinder at the lock-in condition. Further analysis based on thermal performance index (TPI) proves that a high value of T P I = 6 can be reached for the superhydrophobic cylinder.