Simulation Analysis of Fluid Flow and Heat Tr...

Simulation Analysis of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer of an Automotive Radiator

Author Name : Neelambika N

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56025/IJARESM.2022.107787

ABSTRACT

Radiators are used for cooling internal combustion engines, mainly in automobiles but also in piston-engine aircraft, railway locomotives, motorcycles, stationary generating plant or any similar use of such an engine. Modern automotive internal combustion engines generate a huge amount of heat. The flow behavior and temperature profile prediction in the radiator tubes are useful information to the designer. In the current study, the single tube-fin arrangement of an automotive radiator is considered and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to analyze its heat transfer and fluid flow performance. The CFD principles which are made use in this study are effective and appropriate methods that use finite volumes to solve the processes that consist of transport phenomena. The necessary numerical computations are accomplished by STARCCM+ (the CFD solver program) and the results are given in graphical representation. This analysis is done for a tube fin arrangement of a radiator with the specified conditions of inlet flow to coolant tube and finally the validation and conclusion are presented.

Keywords: CFD, Radiator design, Fin-tube fluid flow & heat transfer.