Effect of End Shape on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Two Parallel Plates

Flow around a pair of flat plates is a basic hydrodynamics problem.In this paper,the flow and heat transfer characteristics of two parallel plates with different edge shapes are numerically calculated.Under different inclined angles,the influence of chamfered and rounded structures with different sizes at the end-edge on unsteady flow and heat transfer characteristics of two parallel plates are analyzed.It is found that the instability and unsteadiness of flow decrease with the increase of end-edge size,and the non-uniformity of wake velocity of both rounded and chamfered plates decreases gradually.The non-uniformity of wake temperature increases firstly and then decreases at a small inclined angle,and the amplitude becomes the largest when S_(rou)(S_(cha))=3,while it basically keeps monotonically increasing at a large inclined angle.Moreover,the global heat transfer performance of the flat plate is obviously affected by the end-edge modification,especially the chamfered structure.With the increase of chamfered size,the global Nusselt number basically shows the decreasing trend.This study provides a theoretical basis for the application of plate-shape structure in engineering fields.

Area-minimizing Cones over Stiefel Manifolds

We study the area-minimization property of the cones over Stiefel manifolds V_(m)(F^(n))(F=R,C or H)and their products,where the Stiefel manifolds are embedded into the unit sphere of Euclidean space in a standard way.We will show that these cones are areaminimizing if the dimension is at least 7,using the Curvature Criterion of[Mem.Amer.Math.Soc.,1991,91(446):vi+111 pp.].This extends the results of corresponding references,where the cones over products of Grassmann manifolds were considered.