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Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol.36, No.16, 1409-1416, 2015
Heat Transfer Characteristics of Grooved Fin Under Forced Convection
Material removal from an extended surface in the form of perforations and slots is a proven technique to augment heat transfer rates with a considerable reduction in the surface weight. This work presents the outcomes of experimental investigation on heat transfer characteristics of a plate fin having grooves of various configurations on two broad faces. The experimental data pertaining to heat transfer have been collected by varying Reynolds number from 1500 to 5000, for transverse grooved, inclined grooved, V-grooved, and multi-V-grooved fin. The results of the grooved fin are compared with that of a smooth conventional fin to gauge the heat transfer performance of modified fin. The maximum enhancement in Nusselt number corresponds to the inclined groove fin, whereas the highest value of grooved fin effectiveness is obtained for the multi-V-grooved fin. The Nusselt number correlations are presented for different fin configurations tested in this work.