Fluid flow mechanisms for enhancing of physical-power processes on structured energy-efficient surfaces with vortex generators
S.A. Isaev1,2
1State Marine Technical University of St.Petersburg, St-Petersburg, Russia
2Saint Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation, St-Petersburg, Russia
Keywords: heat transfer enhancement, vortex, inclined groove, plate, narrow channel, numerical simulation, experiment
Abstract
The RANS approach was used for revealing the phenomenon of interference of a jet flow while deceleration due to interaction with the windward edge of the inclined groove on a streamlined plate and the narrow trench wall; the interaction generates a tornado-like vortex at the groove inlet. Experiments confirmed emerging of extra-ordinary drops in static pressure between the stagnation and rarefaction zones. The return flow velocity increases twice and this velocity magnitude exceeds the superficial velocity. The study justified the separation flow increase and heat transfer enhancement for the cases of inclined grooves on a structured surface. This effect is related with a multiple (up to 6-9 times) growth of relative friction and heat fluxes inside the grooves (compared to the case of a flat wall). We observe also acceleration in the near-wall stream caused by a set of single-row inclined groves in a narrow channel. Here the maximum velocity in the stream core in a structured channel increases by more than 1.5 times as compared the maximal velocity for a flow in a planar-parallel channel. The study performs aerodynamic disigning of new energy-efficient grooves-structures surfaces.
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