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Mixed convection air cooling of protruding heat sources mounted in a horizontal channel
Adel Hamouche,Rachid Bessaïh +1 more
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In this paper, a numerical study of laminar mixed-convection heat transfer to air from two identical protruding heat sources, which simulate electronic components, located in a two-dimensional horizontal channel, is presented.About:
This article is published in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 2009-10-01. It has received 43 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Convective heat transfer & Fin (extended surface).read more
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Mixed convection heat transfer from surface-mounted block heat sources in a horizontal channel with nanofluids
Mohammad Hemmat Esfe,Ali Akbar Abbasian Arani,Amir Hossein Niroumand,Wei-Mon Yan,Arash Karimipour +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented laminar mixed convection flow of Al 2 O 3 /water nanofluids in a horizontal channel where two hot obstacles are mounted on the bottom wall.
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Numerical simulation of mixed convection air-cooling of electronic components mounted in an inclined channel
Lyes Boutina,Rachid Bessaïh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the laminar mixed convection air-cooling of two identical heat sources, simulating electronic components, mounted in an inclined channel, and used the SIMPLER algorithm to solve the conservation equations of mass, momentum, and energy.
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Mixed convection heat transfer of AL2O3 nanofluid in a horizontal channel subjected with two heat sources
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of different parameters including Richardson number, Reynolds number, thermal conductivity, sources separation distance and the length-to-height ratio of heat sources is investigated.
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Experimental and numerical investigation of natural convection in a discretely heated vertical channel: Effect of the blockage ratio of the heat sources
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of heat source blockage ratio (b r ) on recirculating flow and cooling performance of a parallel plate channel with a heat source array was investigated.
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Conjugate mixed convection in a rectangular cavity with a local heater
TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed convection in an open cavity having solid walls of finite thickness and conductivity under the effect of local heaters has been studied, where the domain of interest is considered as an electronic cabinet having heat-generating chips with active cooling system.
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Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction, and other related processes that occur in engineering equipment, the natural environment, and living organisms.
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Optimal distribution of discrete heat sources on a wall with natural convection
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the constructal method to the discovery of the optimal distribution of discrete heat sources cooled by laminar natural convection, where the global objective is to maximize the global conductance between the wall and the fluid or to minimize the hot-spot temperatures when the total heat generation rate and global system dimensions are specified.
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Convective cooling of a heated obstacle in a channel
Timothy J. Young,Kambiz Vafai +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed investigation of the forced convective cooling of a heated obstacle mounted upon a channel wall is presented, where the Navier-Stokes equations are used to characterize the flow field surrounding the conductive obstacle.
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Convective flow and heat transfer in a channel containing multiple heated obstacles
Timothy J. Young,Kambiz Vafai +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical simulation of forced convective, incompressible flow in a channel with an array of heated obstacles attached to one wall is presented, and three levels of Nusselt numbers are emphasized in this systematic analysis: local distributions along the obstacle exposed faces, mean values for individual faces, and overall obstacle mean values.
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Laminar mixed convection in a partially blocked, vertical channel
S. Habchi,Sumanta Acharya +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical investigation is made of laminar mixed convection of air in a vertical channel containing a partial rectangular blockage on one channel wall, where the wall containing the blockage is assumed to be heated while the other wall is either adiabatic (asymmetric heating) or heated (symmetric) heating.
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