A theoretical study is performed to investigate unsteady thermal and fluid flow transport phenomena over vertical slot-perforated flat fins with heat sink, which are placed in a natural convection environment. Emphasis is placed on the effects of Rayleigh number and fin pitch on heat transfer performance and velocity and thermal fields. It is found from the study that (i) in the high Rayleigh number region, the alternating changes in the fluid flow take place for larger fin pitch, (ii) the alternating flow in the space area between two fins is mutually interacted by the corresponding one from the adjacent in-line plate fines, resulting in an amplification of heat transfer performance, and (iii) heat-transfer performance is intensified with an increase in the fin pitch, whose trend becomes larger in the higher Rayleigh number region considered here.

Volume Subject Area:
Heat Transfer
Topics:
Fins, Flow (Dynamics), Heat sinks, Natural convection, Thermofluids, Transport phenomena, Heat transfer, Rayleigh number, Fluid dynamics
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