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Performance investigation on twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers with coupling-vortex square tube layout

Gu, Huaduo LU ; Chen, Yaping ; Wu, Jiafeng and Sunden, Bengt LU (2020) In International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 151.
Abstract

The twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers with the novel coupling-vortex chessboard tube layout (TETHXs-CV) were simulated with the RNG k-ε model in software Fluent 15.0. The shell-side flow pattern at the tangential points between adjacent tubes in traditional TETHX is countercurrent while that in TETHX-CV is concurrent, which helps enhance heat transfer capability without any extra manufacturing cost. The impacts of the ratio A/B of the major axis to the minor axis and the twist pitch S were also investigated. The results indicate that with the increase of A/B and the decrease of S, the secondary flow behaves more intensely, the Nusselt number Nu and the friction factor f increase, while with the increase of A/B and S, the... (More)

The twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers with the novel coupling-vortex chessboard tube layout (TETHXs-CV) were simulated with the RNG k-ε model in software Fluent 15.0. The shell-side flow pattern at the tangential points between adjacent tubes in traditional TETHX is countercurrent while that in TETHX-CV is concurrent, which helps enhance heat transfer capability without any extra manufacturing cost. The impacts of the ratio A/B of the major axis to the minor axis and the twist pitch S were also investigated. The results indicate that with the increase of A/B and the decrease of S, the secondary flow behaves more intensely, the Nusselt number Nu and the friction factor f increase, while with the increase of A/B and S, the comprehensive evaluation index Nu∙f−1/3 increases. The Nu, f and Nu∙f−1/3 of all twisted tube schemes are higher than those of the smooth round tube schemes R10.8. Compared with corresponding parallel-vortex schemes, the coupling-vortex schemes possess more uniform temperature fields, and the average Nu, f and Nu∙f−1/3 of the coupling-vortex schemes C12.3S50/C12.3S100 increase by 12.8%/9.9%, 15.2%/10.5% and 7.6%/6.3%, respectively; the smaller S or the closer A/B is to 1, the more advantageous the TETHX-CV.

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Chessboard square tube layout, Coupling-vortex, Helical pitch, Parallel-vortex, Twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers
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International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
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151
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119473
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Pergamon Press Ltd.
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0017-9310
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10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.119473
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  author       = {{Gu, Huaduo and Chen, Yaping and Wu, Jiafeng and Sunden, Bengt}},
  issn         = {{0017-9310}},
  keywords     = {{Chessboard square tube layout; Coupling-vortex; Helical pitch; Parallel-vortex; Twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Pergamon Press Ltd.}},
  series       = {{International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer}},
  title        = {{Performance investigation on twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers with coupling-vortex square tube layout}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.119473}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.119473}},
  volume       = {{151}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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