Numerical evaluation of dry-cooling towers interaction in different arrangement

Abstract

The effect of wind on the performance of dry indirect cooling towers in different arrangements is investigated in the present paper. Thus , there are two cases to solve the problem: At first, solving various arrangements in free conviction state, and then when exposed to wind (forced conviction ).Let consider a wind of 5 m/s velocity in order to compare different results obtained in forced conviction state in various arrangement . For the case of free conviction, towers are considered as two parallel towers, two successive towers, three towers in triangular arrangement and four towers in rectangular arrangement at equal distances. Then, velocity and pressure field are compared in different arrangements and phenomena such as chocking of tower flow due to presence of wind and interactions of various towers on each other's suction capacity in case of wind blow are investigated. Navier-Stokes equations are used in this work.