Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

Heat Transfer Enhancement and Entropy Generation in a Square Enclosure in the Presence of Adiabatic and Isothermal Blocks

In the present work, heat transfer and entropy generation characteristics are numerically investigated in presence of single and double obstructive blocks within a square enclosure. It is found that the adiabatic block(s) enhance(s) the heat transfer marginally up to a critical size in a convection-dominated regime. On the other hand, the enhancement parameter is observed to be more with an increase in block size in a lower range of Rayleigh numbers for an isothermal block. The entropy generation for thermal irreversibility is observed to be several orders higher than that due to viscous dissipation in all cases.

Heat Transfer and Entropy Generation in a Porous Square Enclosure in Presence of an Adiabatic Block

The present work investigates the thermal aspects of a differentially heated porous square enclosure in the presence of an adiabatic block of different block sizes utilizing Darcy–Rayleigh number in the range of 1–10,000 with Darcy number

Mixed Convection Heat Transfer in a Grooved Channel with Injection

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Analysis of Entropy Generation during the Convective Quenching of a Cluster of Balls

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Thermal instability-driven multiple solutions in a grooved channel

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Molten Drop to Coolant Heat Transfer During Premixing of Fuel Coolant Interaction

10-6. Heatlines and Nusselt number, streamlines, and entropy generation are used for the analysis of heat transfer, flow circulation, and irreversibility production in the enclosure. The study reveals that the presence of an adiabatic block affects the heat transfer process severely, and three different zones of heat transfer are identified. These are namely the zone of heat transfer augmentation, the zone of heat transfer augmentation along with entropy generation reduction, and the zone of both heat transfer and entropy generation reduction. It is also found that the presence of an adiabatic block can enhance heat transfer up to a certain critical block size; thereafter, further increasing in block size reduces the heat transfer rate. An optimal block size where the heat transfer enhancement is maximum is observed to be smaller than the critical block size. The study demonstrates the analyses of heat transfer and entropy generation for a better thermal design of a system. This study is also extended for higher Prandtl number fluids.