| Abstract: | Experiments of natural convection from arrays of one, two, and three horizontal cylinders attached vertically one above the other to a heated, vertical flat plate in water have shown that the lowest cylinder is essentially unaffected by cylinders above it and has a heat transfer rate less than that of an infinitely long cylinder. The effect on the heat transfer from cylinders in the wake of the lowest cylinder is primarily a function of the spacing between the cylinders, with the increase being larger for greater spacing. For these wake cylinders, increases are sufficient to cause the heat transfer to equal that of an infinite cylinder. |
