Study of Fluid Flow in a Channel with Heated Obstacle

The present paper deals with the numerical simulation of fluid flow with heated obstacle in a channel. A three dimensional finite element method for channel flow with heated obstacle is developed and a tool of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is employed to assist the process. This study presents the detail effects with respect to the variations in the obstacle's height, width, spacing, and number. The studied results depict the trends due to variable obstacle thermal conductivity, fluid flow rate, pressure and heating method. The periodic behaviour of the velocity components and temperature distributions are also explicitly demonstrated.