ON THE VALIDITY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL HEAT TRANSFER SIMULATION OF MOVING DROPLETS BETWEEN PARALLEL PLATES

摘要

Use of moving droplets between two parallel plates has been investigated widely in recent years for cooling purposes. While the real shape of the droplets is a cylin-der with curved side (convex or concave) i.e. a three dimensional shape, most of the researchers assumed a two-dimensional computational domain including verti-cal mid plane of the droplet, which is applicable for not realistic long droplets. In this paper, the differences be-tween these two approaches are investigated numerically, using ANSYS Fluent package.