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Comparative study of forced convection of a power-law fluid in a channel with a built-in square cylinder
R. Mohebbia, M. Nazarib, M. H. Kayhanib a Damghan University, Damghan, Iran
b Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran
Abstract:
A detailed comparison between the lattice Boltzmann method and the finite element method is presented for an incompressible steady laminar flow and heat transfer of a power-law fluid past a square cylinder between two parallel plates. Computations are performed for three different blockage ratios (ratios of the square side length to the channel width) and different values of the power-law index n covering both pseudo-plastic fluids $(n<1)$ and dilatant fluids $(n>1)$. The methodology is validated against the exact solution. The local and averaged Nusselt numbers are also presented. The results show that the relatively simple lattice Boltzmann method is a good alternative to the finite element method for analyzing non-Newtonian fluids.
Keywords:
forced convection, power-law fluid, lattice Boltzmann method, finite element method.
Received: 29.10.2012 Revised: 24.12.2013
Citation:
R. Mohebbi, M. Nazari, M. H. Kayhani, “Comparative study of forced convection of a power-law fluid in a channel with a built-in square cylinder”, Prikl. Mekh. Tekh. Fiz., 57:1 (2016), 64–79; J. Appl. Mech. Tech. Phys., 57:1 (2016), 55–68
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