Simulation of Vortex Heat Transfer Enhancement in the Turbulent Water Flow in the Narrow Plane-Parallel Channel with an Inclined Oval-trench Dimple of Fixed Depth and Spot Area

Abstract

This article is devoted to the development of the multiblock technique for numerical simulation of vortex heat transfer enhancement (VHTE) by inclined oval-trench dimples. Special attention is paid both to the analysis of numerical predictions of different-type boundary conditions at the wall: T = const and q = const and to the comparison of the standard and modified shear stress transport models. The article discusses the mechanism of change in the flow structure and secondary flow augmentation due to an increase in a relative length of an oval-trench dimple (at its fixed spot area, depth and orientation) where a long spiral vortex is formed.

Keywords

• vortex
• heat
• dimple
• channel
• simulation