An experimental investigation of air flow and heat transfer in three types of converging-diverging tubes is presented in this study. They have the same diameter, rib height and pitch, but the different lengths of the ...An experimental investigation of air flow and heat transfer in three types of converging-diverging tubes is presented in this study. They have the same diameter, rib height and pitch, but the different lengths of the converging and diverging sections and their joint ways. The experimental results indicate that the heat transfer is enhanced when the length of converging section increases. A 12.4% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 6.8% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed linearly (DTL).Also a 5.27% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 46.5% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed convexly (DTC). The comparison results of Webb’s method show the DTL is better than OT in the range 1.5×10 4～4×10 4, but the DTC is not better than it.展开更多
With the help of the description methods in graph theory and the adaptive adjustment method, a steady sate simulation model for fin-and-tube heat exchanger with complex circuit arrangement was developed.This model cou...With the help of the description methods in graph theory and the adaptive adjustment method, a steady sate simulation model for fin-and-tube heat exchanger with complex circuit arrangement was developed.This model could provide better compatibility and accuracy for the design of heat exchanger with complex circuit arrangement.Using this model, six typical fin-and-tube heat exchangers with different circuit arrangements were analyzed.The counter flow arrangement could not always achieve the best performance.With appropriate compound arrangement, the performance of heat exchanger could be improved by 2%—4%.展开更多
文摘An experimental investigation of air flow and heat transfer in three types of converging-diverging tubes is presented in this study. They have the same diameter, rib height and pitch, but the different lengths of the converging and diverging sections and their joint ways. The experimental results indicate that the heat transfer is enhanced when the length of converging section increases. A 12.4% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 6.8% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed linearly (DTL).Also a 5.27% increase of Nusselt number is observed and a 46.5% increase of friction coefficient is seen for the developed tube jointed convexly (DTC). The comparison results of Webb’s method show the DTL is better than OT in the range 1.5×10 4～4×10 4, but the DTC is not better than it.
文摘With the help of the description methods in graph theory and the adaptive adjustment method, a steady sate simulation model for fin-and-tube heat exchanger with complex circuit arrangement was developed.This model could provide better compatibility and accuracy for the design of heat exchanger with complex circuit arrangement.Using this model, six typical fin-and-tube heat exchangers with different circuit arrangements were analyzed.The counter flow arrangement could not always achieve the best performance.With appropriate compound arrangement, the performance of heat exchanger could be improved by 2%—4%.
