This investigation concerns numerical calculation of turbulent forced convective heat transfer and fluid flow in their fully developed state at low Reynolds number. The authors have developed a low Reynolds number version of the nonlinear k-ε model combined with the heat flux models of simple eddy diffusivity (SED), low Reynolds number version of generalized gradient diffusion hypothesis (GGDH), and wealth ∝ earning × time (WET) in general three-dimensional geometries. The numerical approach is based on the finite volume technique with a nonstaggered grid arrangement and the SIMPLEC algorithm. Results have been obtained with the nonlinear k-ε model, combined with the Lam-Bremhorst and the Abe-Kondoh-Nagano damping functions for low Reynolds numbers.

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