Experimental study on EHD heat transfer enhancement from flush-mounted ribbons with different arrangements of wire electrodes in a channel

Abstract

In the present study, the heat transfer enhancement of a bundle of flush-mounted ribbons placed on the floor of a rectangular duct was investigated experimentally. The flush-mounted ribbons act as heat sources and the cooling happens with air. The air flow was three-dimensional, steady, viscous and incompressible under both laminar and turbulent conditions ( $$500 \le \text{Re}_{{D_{h} }} \le 4500$$ ). The hydrodynamics and heat transfer behavior of the air flow was studied by means of an active method with application of corona wind. The state of the art of this work revolves around an experimental investigation of an electrohydrodynamics (EHD) active method and heat transfer enhancement from the surfaces of the flush-mounted ribbons. Due to the intricacies of the required experiment, a special apparatus needed to be designed and constructed. The aim of this work is application of EHD active method for convective heat transfer enhancement. In this method the different arrangement of wire electrodes has been achieved. The results show that in same Reynolds numbers and voltages of wires, the heat transfer enhancement was increase in arrangement 1 than other 4 arrangements.