Experimental investigation of mixed convection in a rectangular duct with a heated plate in the middle of cross section |
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Authors: | Daotong Chong Jiping Liu Junjie Yan Zhijie Zhou |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China |
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Abstract: | The flow and heat transfer in an inclined and horizontal rectangular duct with a heated plate longitudinally mounted in the
middle of cross section was experimentally investigated. The heated plate and rectangular duct were both made of highly conductive
materials, and the heated plate was subjected to a uniform heat flux. The heat transfer processes through the test section
were under various operating conditions: Pr ≈ 0.7, inclination angle ϕ = −60° to +60°, Reynolds number Re = 334–1,911, Grashof number Gr = 5.26 × 102–5.78 × 106. The experimental results showed that the average Nusselt number in the entrance region was 1.6–2 times as large as that
in the fully developed region. The average Nusselt numbers and pressure drops increased with the Reynolds number. The average
Nusselt numbers and pressure drops decreased with an increase in the inclination angle from −60° to +60° when the Reynolds
number was less than 1,500. But when the Reynolds number increased to over about 1,800, the heat transfer coefficients and
pressure drops were independent of inclination angles. |
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