Natural Convection from a Horizontal Heat Sink: Numerical simulation using Fluent 19.2

By Hesham Khalil

Natural convection is a phenomenon occurs when heat is transferred to a fluid, which raises its temperature and decreases its density and consequently makes it flows upward. This book is a complete tutorial on how to simulate this kind of phenomenon using ANSYS Fluent 19.2. This is applied to a simple application of cooling a small surface using a heat sink. The tutorial starts with creating the 3D domain itself inside ANSYS DesignModeler, then discretizing it (Meshing) in ANSYS Meshing application. After that, the model is defined in Fluent with the appropriate boundary conditions. Finally, the output data is processed in Fluent to see the resulting flow around the heat sink and the temperature distribution in both the fluid and the heat sink itself.This a tutorial for the complete steps required to complete this kind of simulation. It is presented in the form of high-resolution screenshots of the applications' windows which are preceded by a textual description of the steps. Also, some of these screenshots are followed by an explanation of the different choices when seen appropriate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1798498677
• ISBN13: 9781798498675
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 8.5"