Investigation on periodically developed heat transfer in a specially enhanced channel

The heat transfer and the flow resistance in the channel with periodic flow-inclining fins attached on the wall have been studied numerically and experimentally on the characteristics in the periodically fully developed flow region. The effect of the fin angle from 0° to 23.2° has been verified on the thermal performance and the flow resistance. The results reveal that the heat transfer is obviously enhanced for both the laminar and the turbulent flow. Analyses also show that the enhancement is accordant to the improvement of the field synergy between the flow velocity and the temperature gradient. Assessments under the identical pump power consumption show that the fin of β = 16.0° is the best in most cases. The most enhancement ratio fall in between 2 and 7.5. The conductivity of the fin material has also been demonstrated to be an important factor to the thermal performance.