scholarly journals Effect of angle of attack on heat transfer and hydrodynamic characteristics for staggered drop-shaped tubes bundle in cross-flow

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Rawad Deeb ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Angle Of Attack ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Hydrodynamic Characteristics ◽  
Equivalent Diameter

Tube bundles can be used as a separation heat exchanger in the organic Rankine cycle power plants (ORC), while the hot gas passes over the outer surface, and the working substance ORC flows inside the tubes. A numerical study has been conducted to clarify heat transfer and hydrodynamics of a cross-flow heat exchanger with staggered drop-shaped tubes at different flow angles of attack in comparison with circular tubes of the same equivalent diameter. The study was performed for the Reynolds number Re= 1.8  103 ~ 9.4  103, the longitudinal and transverse spacing of the tubes in the bundle are the same and are equal to 37 mm. Four cases of the tube’s arrangement with different angles of attack were investigated: 0, 45, 135, and 180 angles. The article presents a literature review related to the subject of the study. A mathematical and numerical model has been developed to calculate the heat transfer coefficient of the studied staggered drop-shaped tubes bundle using the ANSYS package, taking into account the stress-strain state of the tubes. Correlations of the average Nusselt numbers and the friction coefficient for the considered bundles in terms of the Reynolds number and angle of attack were presented. The results reveal that the thermal–hydraulic performance of the drop-shaped tubes bundle with zero-angle of attack is about 1.6 ~ 1.7 times greater than the circular one.

Pressure Loss and Heat Transfer Characterization of a Cam-Shaped Cylinder at Different Orientations

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nouri-Borujerdi ◽  
Arash M. Lavasani
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Drag Coefficient ◽  
Angle Of Attack ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Equivalent Diameter ◽  
Pressure Drag ◽  
The Mean

Pressure drag coefficient and heat transfer are experimentally investigated around a single noncircular cylinder in cross-flow under angle of attack 0 deg<α<360 deg and Reynolds number 1.5×104<Reeq<4.8×104 based on equivalent diameter of a circular cylinder. The results show that the trend of pressure drag coefficient against the angle of attack has a wavy shape but the wavy trend of the Nusselt number is smoother relative to the drag coefficient behavior. It is found that for l∕Deq=0.4 and over the whole range of the Reynolds number, the pressure drag coefficient has a minimum value of about CD=0.4 at α=30 deg, 180 deg, and 330 deg and a maximum value of about CD=0.9 at α=90 deg and 270 deg. The corresponding value of the mean Nusselt number to that of the equivalent circular tube is 1.05<Nu¯cam∕Nu¯cir<1.08 at α=90 deg and 270 deg as well as 0.87<Nu¯cam∕Nu¯cir<0.92 at α=30 deg and 180 deg.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Evaluation of Heat Transfer Correlations for Sodium Flows in a Heat Exchanger

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seok-Ki Choi ◽  
Seong-O Kim ◽  
Hoon-Ki Choi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Turbulence Model ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Turbulence Models ◽  
Parallel Flow ◽  
Sst Model ◽  
Heat Transfer Correlations

A numerical study for the evaluation of heat transfer correlations for sodium flows in a heat exchanger of a fast breeder nuclear reactor is performed. Three different types of flows such as parallel flow, cross flow, and two inclined flows are considered. Calculations are performed for these three typical flows in a heat exchanger changing turbulence models. The tested turbulence models are the shear stress transport (SST) model and the SSG-Reynolds stress turbulence model by Speziale, Sarkar, and Gaski (1991, “Modelling the Pressure-Strain Correlation of Turbulence: An Invariant Dynamical System Approach,” J. Fluid Mech., 227, pp. 245–272). The computational model for parallel flow is a flow past tubes inside a circular cylinder and those for the cross flow and inclined flows are flows past the perpendicular and inclined tube banks enclosed by a rectangular duct. The computational results show that the SST model produces the most reliable results that can distinguish the best heat transfer correlation from other correlations for the three different flows. It was also shown that the SSG-RSTM high-Reynolds number turbulence model does not deal with the low-Prandtl number effect properly when the Peclet number is small. According to the present calculations for a parallel flow, all the old correlations do not match with the present numerical solutions and a new correlation is proposed. The correlations by Dwyer (1966, “Recent Developments in Liquid-Metal Heat Transfer,” At. Energy Rev., 4, pp. 3–92) for a cross flow and its modified correlation that takes into account of flow inclination for inclined flows work best and are accurate enough to be used for the design of the heat exchanger.

Numerical Study on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Jet Impingement Cooling

2011 ◽  
Vol 148-149 ◽  
pp. 680-683
Author(s):  
Run Peng Sun ◽  
Wei Bing Zhu ◽  
Hong Chen ◽  
Chang Jiang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Jet Impingement ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Transfer Characteristic ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Transfer Characteristics

Three-dimensional numerical study is conducted to investigate the heat transfer characteristics for the flow impingement cooling in the narrow passage based on cooling technology of turbine blade.The effects of the jet Reynolds number, impingement distance and initial cross-flow on heat transfer characteristic are investigated.Results show that when other parameters remain unchanged local heat transfer coefficient increases with increase of jet Reynolds number；overall heat transfer effect is reduced by initial cross-flow；there is an optimal distance to the best effect of heat transfer.

Numerical Study of Shellside Performance of Heat Transfer and Flow Resistance for Heat Exchanger with Trefoil-Hole Baffles

2012 ◽  
Vol 557-559 ◽  
pp. 2141-2146
Author(s):  
Yong Hua You ◽  
Ai Wu Fan ◽  
Chen Chen ◽  
Shun Li Fang ◽  
Shi Ping Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Transfer Rate ◽  
Pressure Loss ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Shell Side ◽  
Tube Heat Exchanger

Trefoil-hole baffles have good thermo-hydraulic performances as the support of heat pipes, however the published research paper is relatively limited. The present paper investigates the shellside thermo-hydraulic characteristics of shell-and-tube heat exchanger with trefoil-hole baffles (THB-STHX) under turbulent flow region, and the variations of shellside Nusselt number, pressure loss and overall thermo-hydraulic performance (PEC) with Reynolds number are obtained for baffles of varied pitch with the numerical method. CFD results demonstrate that the trefoil-hole baffle could enhance the heat transfer rate of shell side effectively, and the maximal average Nusselt number is augmented by ～2.3 times that of no baffle, while average pressure loss increases by ～9.6 times. The PEC value of shell side lies in the range of 16.3 and 73.8 kPa-1, and drops with the increment of Reynolds number and the decrement of baffle pitch, which indicates that the heat exchanger with trefoil-hole baffles of larger pitch could generate better overall performance at low Reynolds number. Moreover, the contours of velocity, turbulent intensity and temperature are presented for discussions. It is found that shellside high-speed jet, intensive recirculation flow and high turbulence level could enhance the heat transfer rate effectively. Besides good performance, THB-STHXs are easily manufactured, thus promise widely applied in various industries.

scholarly journals Modelling of Polymeric Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers for Low-Medium Temperature Geothermal Applications

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2737
Author(s):  
Francesca Ceglia ◽  
Adriano Macaluso ◽  
Elisa Marrasso ◽  
Maurizio Sasso ◽  
Laura Vanoli
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Heat Transfer Area ◽  
Geothermal Fluid ◽  
Shell And Tube

Improvements in using geothermal sources can be attained through the installation of power plants taking advantage of low and medium enthalpy available in poorly exploited geothermal sites. Geothermal fluids at medium and low temperature could be considered to feed binary cycle power plants using organic fluids for electricity “production” or in cogeneration configuration. The improvement in the use of geothermal aquifers at low-medium enthalpy in small deep sites favours the reduction of drilling well costs, and in addition, it allows the exploitation of local resources in the energy districts. The heat exchanger evaporator enables the thermal heat exchange between the working fluid (which is commonly an organic fluid for an Organic Rankine Cycle) and the geothermal fluid (supplied by the aquifer). Thus, it has to be realised taking into account the thermodynamic proprieties and chemical composition of the geothermal field. The geothermal fluid is typically very aggressive, and it leads to the corrosion of steel traditionally used in the heat exchangers. This paper analyses the possibility of using plastic material in the constructions of the evaporator installed in an Organic Rankine Cycle plant in order to overcome the problems of corrosion and the increase of heat exchanger thermal resistance due to the fouling effect. A comparison among heat exchangers made of commonly used materials, such as carbon, steel, and titanium, with alternative polymeric materials has been carried out. This analysis has been built in a mathematical approach using the correlation referred to in the literature about heat transfer in single-phase and two-phase fluids in a tube and/or in the shell side. The outcomes provide the heat transfer area for the shell and tube heat exchanger with a fixed thermal power size. The results have demonstrated that the plastic evaporator shows an increase of 47.0% of the heat transfer area but an economic installation cost saving of 48.0% over the titanium evaporator.

The Second Law Analysis of Thermodynamics for the Plate–Fin Surface Performance in a Cross Flow Heat Exchanger

2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansour Nasiri Khalaji ◽  
Isak Kotcioglu ◽  
Sinan Caliskan ◽  
Ahmet Cansiz
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Entropy Generation ◽  
Fluid Velocity ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Second Law ◽  
Transfer Unit ◽  
Pin Fins

In this paper, a particular heat exchanger is designed and analyzed by using second law of thermodynamics. The heat exchanger operates with the cross flow forced convection having cylindrical, square, and hexagonal pin fins (tubular router) placed in the rectangular duct. The pin fins are installed periodically at the top and bottom plates of the duct perpendicular to the flow direction, structured in-line, and staggered sheet layouts. The entropy generation in the flow domain of the channels is calculated to demonstrate the rate of irreversibilities. To obtain the efficiencies, irreversibility, thermal performance factor, and entropy generation number (EGN), the heat exchanger is operated at different temperatures and flow rates by using hot and cold fluids. Optimization of the design parameters and winglet geometry associated with the performance are determined by entropy generation minimization. The variation of the EGN with Reynolds number for various tubular routers is presented. The Reynolds number is determined according to the experimental plan and the performance is analyzed with the method of effectiveness—number of transfer unit (NTU). Based on particular designs, it was determined that the increment in fluid velocity enhances the heat transfer rate, which in turn decreases the heat transfer irreversibility.

Investigation of Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics in Heat Exchanger With Microscale Channels

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaokun Xu ◽  
Baoming Chen ◽  
Shui Ji ◽  
Shiqi Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Prandtl Number ◽  
Ethylene Glycol ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Equivalent Diameter ◽  
Flow Friction ◽  
Glycol Solution

The experimental study of heat transfer and flow characteristics are conducted for water and ethylene-glycol solution flowing in the heat exchanger with rectangular or triangular microscale channels, which have equivalent diameter of 0.55mm, 0.91mm, 1.38mm and 5mm. During experiments, the Reynolds number ranges from 300 to 2500. The experimental results show that: at a fixed Reynolds number, the Nusselt number increases along with increasing equivalent diameter, the Nusselt number for ethylene-glycol solution with larger Prandtl number is greater than that for water, the geometrical configuration of the microscale channels have a significant effect on the heat transfer; the flow friction factors of microscale channels are smaller than that of normal channels, flow characteristics of rectangular channels are evidently better than that of triangular, the flow friction factor decreases with increasing Reynolds number, the experiment also show that the flow friction factor is independent of Prandtl number; The critical Reynolds number at which the flow transiting to turbulent flow is 700∼1200.

Computational study of Staggered and Double Cross Flow Heat Exchanger

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 396
Author(s):  
Annur Srinivasan Krishnan ◽  
Palanivelu Gowtham
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Flow Reynolds Number ◽  
Flow Heat ◽  
Shell And Tube ◽  
Double Cross

The preliminary findings of a comparative study of heat transfer rate and pressure drop between conventional staggered flow and double cross flow heat exchanger is reported. Excepting for the tube arrangements, the shell and tube dimensions, materials and inlet conditions are retained the same for the two configurations. While in the conventional arrangement, adjacent rows of tubes are normal only to the fluid flow in the shell, in the double cross-flow arrangement, they are normal to both fluid flow direction in the shell as well as to each other. Shell dimensions are 100 cm × 20 cm × 20 cm and tube outside and inside diameters are 1 cm and 0.8 cm. The shell and tube materials are steel and copper. Water and air were considered as tube and shell side fluids respectively, with an overall arrangement of parallel flow. The tube flow Reynolds number was fixed at 2200 and the shell flow Reynolds number was varied from 20 to 120 in the laminar regime and 360 to 600 in the turbulent zone. The study reveals that the proposed configuration gives a maximum increase of about 27 per cent in the heat transfer rate per unit pressure drop over the conventional one.

Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics of the Jet Array Impingement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Ren ◽  
Xueying Li ◽  
Jing Ren
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Thermochromic Liquid Crystal ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Transfer Region ◽  
Performance Of Heat Transfer

Abstract An experimental and numerical study is performed to investigate heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics for impingement. Experimental heat transfer is measured by the thermochromic liquid crystal. The CFD model uses a steady state RANS approach and the shear stress transport (SST). The effect of Reynolds number (5000–25000), the distance between the holes and the distance from the hole to target on the impingement is investigated in the present study. Local Nusselt number as well as area and line average values are gotten experimentally and numerically. Besides, numerical simulations provide the detailed flow characteristics of the problem and complement experimental measurements. The result shows that the heat transfer increases with Reynolds number increasing. But the qualitative distribution of local heat transfer does not change with the increase of Reynolds number, when it is sensitive to P/D and Z/D. The performance of heat transfer is best when Z/D = 2. And the high heat transfer region of Z/D = 1 is closer to the exit than that of Z/D = 2 and Z/D = 3. The main reason is the effect of cross flow and the momentum of the jet reaching the wall. The performance of heat transfer is best when P/D = 5. And the high heat transfer region of P/D = 4 is closer to the exit than that of P/D = 5 and P/D = 6. The main reason is the effect of cross flow and interactions between jets.

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