THERMAL ANALYSIS ON DIFFERENT FIN

PROFILES USING ANSYS

SRI VASAVI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY
Accredited by NAAC ‘A-Grade’& NBA(MECH,CSE&ECE)
Approved by AICTE, New Delhi & Affiliated to JNTU Kakinada
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PRESENTED BY DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

P. Sai Babu - 18MQ5A0325 UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
G. Leela Vara Prasad -18MQ5A0310 CH.ANUSHA M.Tech
P. CH. Durga Satish -17MQ1A0320 Asst. professor
R. Ram Chandra Rao -17MQ1A0323
 ABSTRACT
Convective heat transfer between a surface and the surrounding has been a major
issue and a topic of study for a long time. In this project, the heat transfer performance of fin
is analyzed by ANSYS workbench for the design of fin with various design configuration
such as cylinder, Parabola(Concave, Convex) and rectangular configuration. The heat
transfer performance of fin with same base temperature having various geometry is
compared. In this thermal analysis, Aluminum was used as the base metal for the fin material
and for various configurations. Fin of various configuration are design with the help of
CATIA V5R16 software Analysis of fin performance done through the ANSYS software.
 INTRODUCTION
The fin is a major component used in many systems for increasing the rate of heat

transfer. In order to cool the system, fins are provided on the surface of the system to

increase the rate of heat transfer. By doing thermal analysis on the fins, it is helpful to

know the heat dissipation and rate of heat transfer in different types of fin.

we know that, by increasing the surface area of fin configuration we can increase the

heat dissipation rate, so designing such a large complex systems is very difficult. There

fore fins are provided on the source of the system to increase heat transfer.
 There are different types of shape and size fins used in engineering applications to increasing
the heat transfer rate such as
 Rectangular fins
 Triangular fins
 Trapezium fins
 Circular segmental fins
 Parabola(Concave, Convex) fins
 Cylinder(Circular, Tapered)fins
IMAGES OF FINS

CYLINDRICAL
RECTANGULAR
PARABOLA
 APPLICATIONS
Fins are most commonly used in heat exchanging devices such as,

 Economizers of steam power plants

 Heat exchangers of a wide variety, used in different industries

 Cooling of electric motors, transformers etc.

 Cooling of electronic equipments, chips, I.C. boards etc.

ADVANTAGES OF FINS

 Fins are used to increase surface areas for heat transfer purposes.
 By using fins, heat transfer rate can be increased without any preventive
maintainance.
 It is the cheapest way for increasing the heat transferring rate frome the hot
bodies.
 LITERATURE REVIEW
Sources Title Of the Paper Important Findings

Kumbhar D.G, Dr. Design and Analysis of In this paper, the effect of triangular perforations on
N.K. Sane, Chavan Extended Surfaces with rectangular fin investigated the comparison of perforated fin
S. T., et al Different Thermal with solid fin for temperature distribution along the fin and
Conductivity Using ANSYS heat transfer rate. The analysis is done using software
12 ANSYS and also by experimentation. The investigation
observed that heat transfer rate increases with perforations as
compared to fins of similar dimensions without perforations.

Pradeep singh, Enhancement of rate of heat In this paper, the heat transfer performance and effectiveness
Harvinder lal et al. transfer of fin made by of fin is analyzed by design of fin with various extensions
aluminium alloy 1060 such as rectangular extension, trapezium extension, triangular
extensions and circular segmental extensions. The heat
transfer performance of fin with same geometry with various
extensions and without extensions is compared. The ranging
5% to 12% increase in heat transfer can be achieved with
these various extensions on fin as compare to same geometry
of fin without these extensions
 LITERATURE REVIEW
Sources Title Of the Paper Important Findings

P Rajesh paul, Ram Thermal analysis on
C Sharma et al. rectangular and circular fin
profiles using ansys by using
aluminium alloy materials.
By using ansys software, He has done research work on various
profiles of fins and analysed through various alloys of
Aluminium including Aluminium Nitride, Cupronickel and
Inconel MA754.All the properties of the alloys were analysed
in this paper.

Vipul Shekhada, Dr. Comparison of Performance In this paper, he has done study on Ansys software in which
Shashi Jain et al of air cooled Fins using they have compared the previous data and the current data of air
Thermal Analysis cooled fins and validated upon the previous conditions and
showed that the new fins have better heat transfer rate as
compared to the existing one.
 PLAN OF WORK

 3D modeling is done for different profiles by using CATIA .

 The above files are imported into ANSYS and analysis part is done.
 The rate of change of heat transfer for different fin configurations can be
determined by using different types of alloy metals.
 Then we can find which type of fin will give maximum effeciency.