Effect of Shape and Placement of Twisted Pin Fins in a Rectangular Channel on Thermo-Hydraulic Performance

  • LI Yong ,
  • ZHANG Jin ,
  • ZHANG Yingchun ,
  • ZHANG Jiajie ,
  • MA Suxia ,
  • SUNDEN Bengt ,
  • XIE Gongnan
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  • 1. College of Electrical and Power Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Cleaner Intelligent Control on Coal & Electricity, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030024, China
    3. Shanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of High Efficiency Heat Storage and Low Carbon Heat Supply, Taiyuan 030008, China
    4. School of Energy and Power Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
    5. Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, Lund SE 22100, Sweden
    6. School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

Online published: 2024-09-08

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This work was sponsored by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2023M732569), the Fundamental Research Program of Shanxi Province, China (202203021212263), Shanxi Scholarship Council of China (2023-055, 2023-143), Chunhui Project Foundation of the Education Department of China (202200075), Science and Technology Innovation Project of Colleges and Universities in Shanxi Province (2022L061). This research work was also financially supported by the Shanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of High Efficiency Heat Storage and Low Carbon Heat Supply, Taiyuan Boiler Group Co., Ltd.

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2024

Abstract

To enhance the thermo-hydraulic performance of cooling channels, this investigation examines the influence of distinct cross-sectional shapes (i.e., triangular, rectangular, and hexagonal) of twisted pin fins and their arrangements in straight and cross rows. An ambient air cooling test platform was established to numerically and experimentally investigate the flow and heat transfer characteristics of 360° twisted pin fins at Re=15 200–22 800. The findings reveal that straight rows exhibit higher Nu values than cross rows for triangular and rectangular twisted pin fins, and Nu increases with Re. In contrast, for hexagonal twisted pin fins, only straight rows at Re=19 000 exhibit superior overall thermal performance compared to cross rows. Notably, the heat transfer performance of the cooling channel with hexagonal twisted fins surpasses both triangular and rectangular configurations, especially at high Reynolds numbers (Re=22 800). Although the heat transfer coefficient of the cooling channel with hexagonal twisted fins is significantly enhanced by 132.71% compared to the flat channel, it also exhibits the highest thermal resistance and relative friction among the three types of twisted fins, the maximum of which are 2.14 and 16.55. Furthermore, the hydrothermal performance factor (HTPF) of the cooling channels with different types of twisted pin fins depends on the Reynolds number and arrangement modes. At Re=15 200, the highest HTPF achieved for the cross-row hexagonal twisted pin fins is 0.99.

Cite this article

LI Yong , ZHANG Jin , ZHANG Yingchun , ZHANG Jiajie , MA Suxia , SUNDEN Bengt , XIE Gongnan . Effect of Shape and Placement of Twisted Pin Fins in a Rectangular Channel on Thermo-Hydraulic Performance[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2024 , 33(5) : 1773 -1793 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-024-2030-0

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