The periodically fully developed laminar heat transfer and pressure drop of arrays with nonuniform plate length aligned at an angle (25 deg) to air direction have been investigated by numerical analysis in the Reynolds number range of 50–1700. The body-fitted coordinate system generated by the multisurface method was adopted to retain the corresponding periodic relation of the lines in physical and computational domains. The computations were carried out just in one cycle. Numerical results show that both the heat transfer and pressure drop increase with the increase in the length ratio of the long plate to the short plate, and decrease with the decrease in the ratio of transverse pitch to the longitudinal pitch. The numerical results exhibit good agreement with available experimental data.
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