Abstract:
Repeated ribs mounted on sidewall in channels are often used to enhance convective heat transfer. In this paper, the heat transfer and fluid flow in a rectangular narrow channel with periodicallymounted Longitudinal Vortex Generators (LVGs) on one sidewall was investigated experimentally in the range of
Re=3×10
3 and
Re=2×10
4. The effect of flow direction on the heat performance was also con-ducted. It was found that the LVGs are able to greatly improve the comprehensive heat transfer performance. And under three kinds of comparison criterion (Identical Mass Flow-IMF, Identical Pressure Drop-IPD, Iden- tical Pumping Power-IPP), the heat transfer performance of parallel-flow was a little better than that of counter-flow.