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Shinya AIBA, Hajime TSUCHIDA and Terukazu OTA
Key Words; Convective Heat Transfer, Heat Exchanger, In-line Tube Bank,
Circular Cylinder, Forced Convection Heat Transfer, Flow
Separation, Wake Flow
Fig. 4 Variation of local Nusselt number Fig. 5 Variation of local Nusselt number
distribution with Reynolds number distribution with Reynolds number
( second cylinder ) ( fifth cylinder )
obtain highly reliable data on the mean suggests a reverse flow in the separated
and turbulent fluctuating velocities with a flow region(20), and its turbulence intensity
hot-wire anemometer. However they would be is about 20 to 25%.
very useful to understand the heat transfer On the other hand, the data obtained at
process of the tube bank. a cross section midway between the fourth
Shown in Figs. 11(a) and 11(b) are and fifth rows shown in Fig. 11(b) illust
typical examples of the velocity and stream rate that the velocity gragient is not so
wise turbulence intensity for the case of steep as that in Fig. 11(a), though the flow
1.6 x 1.6 at about Re = 4.1x10^. Fig. 11(a) velocity fluctuates very widely ( its range
represents the results measured at a cross is designated by a symbol of § ). Further
section midway between the first and the more, the maximum velocity decreases by
second rows ( x/cx =0.5 ). It shows that about 10%. A minimum velocity |u/Ua»|min in
the shear layer separated from the first the separated flow region, however, increa
cylinder possesses a very large velocity ses by about 50% and the turbulence inten
gradient and a high turbulence Intensity and sity is, as a whole, higher than that in
its maximum value is 40%. Furthermore, the Fig. 11(a).
mean velocity between neighboring lines ( Demonstrated in Fig. 12 are streamwise
say at y/d = 2.4, 0.8, -0.8 and -2.4 ) variations of the maximum velocity (u/Uoo)max
reaches its maximum of about (u/UaOma^ = 2.2 between neighboring lines and also the mini
and the turbulence intensity therein is mum velocity |U/U®lmin *n the separated
lower than 10%. In the neighborhood of flow region. The former decreases almost
y/d = 1.6, 0 and -1.6, the velocity dis linearly toward the downstream and the lat
tribution shows a W-shaped profile, which ter, on the contrary, increases linearly in
the same direction.
Fig. 15 shows streamwise variations of
the maximum and minimum turbulence inten-
of the main flow into the separated flow students, Mr. M. Oka, Mr. S. Kodama and Mr.
region. Finally, it may be concluded that J. Nakamura for their help in the experi
the heat transfer characteristics are close ments .
ly correlated with the mean flow velocity
along with the turbulence intensity in the
flow around the cylinder. References