Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 232–238
A.A. Walunj1, V.S. Daund2, and D.D. Palande3
1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Matoshri College of Engineering and Research Center, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
2 Mechanical Engineering Department, Matoshri College of Engineering and Research Center, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
3 Mechanical Engineering Department, Matoshri College of Engineering and Research Center, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Among heat transfer augmentation techniques, passive cooling technique found more suitable for electronic cooling than active technique. In this paper, natural convection heat transfer analysis through rectangular fins is reviewed. Various experimental studies have been made to investigate effect of fin height, fin spacing, fin length and fin thickness over convective heat transfer. Effects of thermodynamic properties like heat input, base-to-ambient temperature difference are also studied by many researchers. Some investigators make known sets of correlations screening the relation between various parameters of heat sink. Experiments are taken by some researchers for upward and downward facing rectangular fins. Also, trivial investigation has been carried out for different angle of inclination of the heat sink. The sensitivity of inclination over geometric parameters found to be great importance.
Author Keywords: rectangular fins, convective heat transfer, heat sink, angle of inclination.
A.A. Walunj1, V.S. Daund2, and D.D. Palande3
1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Matoshri College of Engineering and Research Center, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
2 Mechanical Engineering Department, Matoshri College of Engineering and Research Center, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
3 Mechanical Engineering Department, Matoshri College of Engineering and Research Center, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Among heat transfer augmentation techniques, passive cooling technique found more suitable for electronic cooling than active technique. In this paper, natural convection heat transfer analysis through rectangular fins is reviewed. Various experimental studies have been made to investigate effect of fin height, fin spacing, fin length and fin thickness over convective heat transfer. Effects of thermodynamic properties like heat input, base-to-ambient temperature difference are also studied by many researchers. Some investigators make known sets of correlations screening the relation between various parameters of heat sink. Experiments are taken by some researchers for upward and downward facing rectangular fins. Also, trivial investigation has been carried out for different angle of inclination of the heat sink. The sensitivity of inclination over geometric parameters found to be great importance.
Author Keywords: rectangular fins, convective heat transfer, heat sink, angle of inclination.
How to Cite this Article
A.A. Walunj, V.S. Daund, and D.D. Palande, “Review of Performance of Rectangular Fins under Natural Convection at Different Orientation of Heat Sink,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 232–238, June 2014.
