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CFD Assessment of Flow Maldistribution in Plate Fin and Tube Heat Exchangers

Published:2022-03-28 Issue: Volume: Page:15-23
ISSN:2582-4600
Container-title:SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJOSCIENCE
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Short-container-title:IJOSCIENCE

Author:

Yadav Anupama,Badgaiyan Pankaj,Singh Amit Kumar

Abstract

The primary goal of this work is to use CFD assessment simulating framework is to anticipate the impact of injecting air flowing mal-distribution on heat exchanger architecture and thermal flow characteristics. Using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation-studies, determine the impact of air intake flow unequal distribution or mal-distribution on the complete redesign as well as high - temperature hydraulic performing ability of HEX (heat exchangers). The findings demonstrate that a plate as well as tube fin heating element consisting of an elongated tubular setup slanted by 30 degrees can achieve the highest temperature transmission, having a heat transfer ability of 23.22 percent greater than a (SPHEX) spherical pipe heat exchanger.

Publisher

Smart Moves

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