Heat Transfer from Two Cam Shaped Cylinders in Side-by-Side Arrangement

Heat transfer from two cam shape cylinder in side-byside arrangement had been studied numerically. The transverse gap between the centers of cylinders (T) is allowed to vary to change the pitch ratio (T/Deq). The equivalent diameter of the cylinder (Deq) is 27.6 mm and pitch ratio varies in range of 1≤T/Deq≤3. The Reynolds numbers based on equivalent circular cylinder are within 50≤ Reeq≤150. Results show that Nusselt number of cylinders increases about 1 to 36 percent when pitch ratio increases from 1 to 3.

Authors:

• Arash Mir Abdolah Lavasani
• Hamidreza Bayat

Keywords:

• Cam shaped
• side-by-side cylinders
• numerical
• heat Transfer.

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