NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECTS OF OBSTRUCTION AND SIDE RATIO ON NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW BEHAVIOR AROUND A RECTANGULAR BARRIER

In this paper, the characteristics of the flow and forced heat transfer of power law non-Newtonian fluids that flow around a quadrilateral and rectangular cylinder that are located in a 2D channel are investigated by use of the finite volume method (FVM) in a steady state flow regime. To this accomplishment, in the constant temperature, the effects of a different obstruction ratio, aspect ratio and Reynolds number are investigated. The Reynolds number in the range 5 <= Re <= 40, the power index in the range 0.5 <= n <= 1.4, the aspect ratio in the range 0.5 <= a <= 2, and the obstruction ratio in the range 0.125 <= b <= 0.5 were selected. By surveying the drag coefficient profiles, it's concluded that as the obstruction ratio increases, the drag coefficient is increased, while an increase in the Reynolds number causes the lower drag coefficient. In addition, the drag coefficient is strongly increased by aspect ratio enhancements.