Thermal and Hydraulic Performance of Finned Tube Heat Exchangers
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Abstract
This study numerically examines the heat transfer and pressure drop performance of finned tube heat exchangers with staggered and inline tube layouts for a range of tube pitch.The case where the heat exchanger is placed in a fully ducted airflow with no bypass is considered.Strong horseshoe vortices developed around the fin-tube junction in both cases, which was associated with high heat transfer.The simulations indicate that the performance reduces considerably for the staggered tube layout with an increase in the tube pitch, but a minimal difference for the inline tube arrangement.The effects of other geometrical parameters like fin pitch and the number of tube rows and the Reynolds number are determined.Correlations for the heat transfer and pressure drop for the fin and tube heat exchangers with an inline tube layout are developed based on 280 simulations for 70 different configurations.The proposed heat transfer correlation predicts the dataset to within ±8 percent and the friction factor correlation predicts the dataset to within ±10 percent.The mean deviations for the heat transfer and friction factor correlations are 4.3 percent and 5.4 percent.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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