Natural Convection from Heated
Surface-Mounted Circular Cylinder
H. Malah, Y. S. Chumakov, and S. Ramzani Movafagh
1 Introduction
In recent years, there are more efforts on natural convection heat transfer from a hori-
zontal cylinder, because of its practical applications. However, unconfined cylinder is
well studied; the effect of introducing end-walls on the heat transfer rate of cylinder is
considerably less investigated [1]. By development of computers and enhancement of
advanced computational techniques, many studies of flow over a bluff body relevant
to solid wall have been performed numerically [2], although experimental studies
keep their place among researchers’ efforts because of their advantages [3]. All
numerical and experimental studies confirmed the expected arise on the heat transfer
rate in the upstream region of the cylinder. However, the flow configuration, bluff
body geometry and applied conditions on solid walls affect the arising flow [4, 5].
In this study, a numerical model of a heated horizontal circular cylinder mounted on
vertical isothermal plate is employed to evaluate the natural convection heat transfer.
To quantify the effect of vertical plate on the heat transfer from the cylinder surface,
the aspect ratio of the cylinder (H /D) is selected equal to 0.6, in order to immerse in the
arisen boundary layer on the vertical plate entirely. This geometrical configuration is
evaluated on the vertical plate at fixed Grashof number equals 3 × 10
8
that represents
laminar Grashof number. As a result, we describe the three-dimensional characteris-
tics of natural convection heat transfer, which affect flow around the circular cylinder
mounted on vertical heated plate. The results proved the significant effect of height
of cylinder on the heat transfer rate from circular cylinder surface in the case of
H. Malah (B ) · Y. S. Chumakov
Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic
University, St. Petersburg 195251, Russian Federation
e-mail: hamid.malah@gmail.com
S. Ramzani Movafagh
Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology,
Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg 190013, Russian Federation
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