Numerical investigation of thermohydraulic performance on wake region in finned tube heat exchanger with section-streamlined tube

This paper proposes the section-streamlined tubes to explore the effect of wake region on thermohydraulic performance in the finned tube heat exchangers. Tube configurations and the angle θ have been numerically investigated. Firstly, simulation by k-ω has been validated by Arafat's simulation...

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Main Authors: Li, Y. (Author), Qian, Z. (Author), Wang, Q. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2022
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245 1 0 |a Numerical investigation of thermohydraulic performance on wake region in finned tube heat exchanger with section-streamlined tube 
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520 3 |a This paper proposes the section-streamlined tubes to explore the effect of wake region on thermohydraulic performance in the finned tube heat exchangers. Tube configurations and the angle θ have been numerically investigated. Firstly, simulation by k-ω has been validated by Arafat's simulation and experimental results. It shows good agreement by 7.78% j factor and 6.4% f factor. Then two groups of numerical simulations have been done to research the effect of heat transfer tube on thermohydraulic performance. One of them is focused on the effect of different geometry configurations (circle tube, ellipse tube, rhombic tube, hexagon tube and fusiform tube). It can be concluded that wake region has negative influence both on the heat transfer performance and the flow characteristics behavior, and the section-streamlined tubes can improve the overall performance. The other one is aimed at the effect of rhombic tube and hexagon tube with different angles (θ = 40°, θ = 60°, θ = 80°). The results show that separation angle has great influence on the formation of wake region due to the fluid inertia. Besides, the angle θ has great positive influence on the comprehensive performance. On the whole, the hexagon tube in the finned tube heat exchanger with the angle θ of 40°, which has 19.4% higher j factor and 12.4% lower f factor, eventually resulting 24.8% higher JF factor than the circle tube, has the best performance. © 2022 The Authors 
650 0 4 |a F factor 
650 0 4 |a Finned tube heat exchangers 
650 0 4 |a Fins (heat exchange) 
650 0 4 |a Heat transfer 
650 0 4 |a Hexagon tube 
650 0 4 |a Hexagon tube 
650 0 4 |a J factors 
650 0 4 |a Performance 
650 0 4 |a Rhombic tube 
650 0 4 |a Rhombic tube 
650 0 4 |a Section-streamlined tube 
650 0 4 |a Section-streamlined tube 
650 0 4 |a Streamlined tubes 
650 0 4 |a Thermohydraulic performance 
650 0 4 |a Thermo-hydraulic performance 
650 0 4 |a Tubes (components) 
650 0 4 |a Wake region 
650 0 4 |a Wake region 
650 0 4 |a Wakes 
700 1 0 |a Li, Y.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Qian, Z.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Wang, Q.  |e author 
773 |t Case Studies in Thermal Engineering