TY - JFULL AU - Arash Mirabdolah Lavasani and Taher Maarefdoost PY - 2014/9/ TI - Designing a Low Speed Wind Tunnel for Investigating Effects of Blockage Ratio on Heat Transfer of a Non-Circular Tube T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering SP - 1382 EP - 1386 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9998986 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 92, 2014 N2 - Effect of blockage ratio on heat transfer from non-circular tube is studied experimentally. For doing this experiment a suction type low speed wind tunnel with test section dimension of 14×14×40 and velocity in rage of 7-20 m/s was designed. The blockage ratios varied between 1.5 to 7 and Reynolds number based on equivalent diameter varies in range of 7.5×103 to 17.5×103. The results show that by increasing blockage ratio from 1.5 to 7, drag coefficient of the cam shaped tube decreased about 55 percent. By increasing Reynolds number, Nusselt number of the cam shaped tube increases about 40 to 48 percent in all ranges of blockage ratios. ER -