Effect of moving distance of a moving block on heat transfer in a channel flow

Abstract

A numerical investigation of heat transfer rate of an insulated block moving on a heated surface in a channel was studied. The study mainly investigated the effect of block moving distance on the heat transfer rate of heated surface. This subject belongs to a kind of moving boundary problems, and the modified Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian method is suitable for solving this subject. The results show that the block moving distance affects the flow and thermal fields remarkably. The heat transfer rate of heated surface increases proportionally to the increment of the block moving distance, when the block moving distance is larger than a critical value. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd.