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ABSTRACT
Heat exchangers are some of the most widely used applications area in industry.
Heat exchangers are devices that allow heat transfer between two fluids that have
different temperatures without physical contact between them. Heat transfer increment
is generally crucial for some reasons, such as saving energy and material resources.
Therefore, compact heat exchangers that have low-weight and high level of
performance, must be designed for the heat-exchanger industry. Enhanced surfaces
have been successfully used in the heat transfer industry to obtain more compact and
efficient units. Heat transfer enhancement technology has been widely used in heat
exchanger in the refrigeration, automotive and process industries among others. The
heat transfer enhancement has been analyzed by various methods in order to have
compact heat exchangers. Heretofore, convective heat transfer of corrugated tube has
been researched by some scholars. However, sinusoidal corrugated tube has been very
little studied at home and abroad.
A new type of corrugated tube based on sine function is proposed by introducing
a parameter of sine camber. The heat transfer and flow around sinusoidal corrugated
tubes with different sine camber e are investigated in this paper. Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) was used to analysis flow state and sine camber of tube influence on
the heat transfer and flow, a correlation equations of Nu (Nusselt) =f(Re) is given, for
these, the research has the following main contents:
1. The theoretical comparative analysis with field synergy principle is carried out
for the heat transfer and flow resistance in corrugated tubes, zoom tube and
sinusoidal tube, and its Experimental Verification
2. The heat transfer and flow characteristic of high viscosity medium in tube is
researched, deducing calculation formula of sinusoidal tubes heat exchange
area, and designing application programmers.
3. Convective heat transfer and flow resistance characteristic around sinusoidal
tubes with different sine camber ein cross flow are investigated. And the
relationship between a heat transfer rate and fin position.
4. Based on “NTU-ε” algorithm, a visualized software is programmed to evaluate
the performance for the finned tube heat exchanger by object oriented