Enhancement of heat transfer of mixed convection for heated blocks using vortex shedding generated by an oblique plate in a horizontal channel

Summary The problem of heat transfer enhancement of mixed convective flow past heated blocks in a horizontal channel is investigated. The heat transfer enhancement in this paper has been accomplished by the installation of an oblique plate to generate vortex shedding, which is used in flow modulation. Results for the details of the streamlines in the channel and the Nusselt number along the blocks with and without an oblique plate have been presented.Notation C _p pressure coefficient (2f Pds/f ds) - d length of an oblique plate - ds surface area increment along an oblique plate - f_s frequency of the vortex shedding - Gr Grashof number - H channel wall-to-wall spacing - h height of the block - k thermal conductivity - L channel length - Nu Nusselt number - time-mean Nusselt number (f Nudt/f dt) - average time-mean Nusselt number - n normal vector - P dimensionless pressure (p ^*/(u ² ) - p ^* pressure - Pr Prandtl number (/) - q heat flux at the block boundary - Re Reynolds number (u w/v) - St Strouhal number (df_ssin /u ) - T^* temperature - T uniform inlet temperature - t dimensionless time (t ^* / (w/u )) - t dimensionless time increment - t ^* time - u uniform inlet velocity - u, v dimensionless velocity components (u=u ^*/u ,v=v ^*/v ) - u ^*,v ^* velocity components - w width of the block - x,y dimensionlessx ^*,y ^* coordinates (x=x ^*/w,y=y ^*/w) - x ^*,y ^* physical coordinates - thermal diffusivity - angle of inclination for a plate - dimensionless temperature ((T^*–T ^* )/(qw/k)) - v kinematic viscosity of fluid