EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER FROM PLATE FIN ARRAY IN MIXED CONVECTION MODE

The work summarized in this paper presents an exper imental study of heat transfer from plate fin in mixed convection mode enhancement by the us e of plate fins is presented. After a brief review of the basic methods used to enhance the hea t transfer by simultaneous increase of heat transfer surface area as well as the heat tran sfer coefficient,a simple experimental method to assess the heat transfer enhancement is p resented. The method is demonstrated on plate fins as elements for the heat transfer enhanc ement,but it can in principle be applied also to other fin forms. That is varying various paramet ers (height,spacing). The order of the magnitude of heat transfer enhancement obtained exp erimentally,it was found that by a direct comparison of Nu and Re no conclusion regarding the relative performances could be made. This is because the dimensionless variables are int roduced for the scaling of heat transfer and pressure drop results from laboratory to large scal e but not for the performance comparison. Therefore a literature survey of the performance co mparison methods used in the past was also performed. Experiments will carried out on mix ed convection heat transfer from plate fin heat sinks subject to the influence of its geometry and heat flux. A total of 9 plate fins were pasted into the upper surface of the base plate. Th e area of the base plate is 150mm by 150mm. The base plate and the fins were made of alu minum. For all tested plate fin heat sinks,however,the heat transfer performance for h eat sinks with plate fins was better than that of solid pins. https://www.ijiert.org/paper-details?paper_id=14034