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ISSN Online: 2377-424X

ISBN Print: 0-85295-345-3

International Heat Transfer Conference 10
August, 14-18, 1994, Brighton, UK

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF HEAT EXCHANGERS

Get access (open in a dialog) DOI: 10.1615/IHTC10.5370
pages 13-18

Abstract

A survey of the current heat exchanger design methods is made along with an investigation of the effects of flow maldistribution in their performance. In this way the need for knowledge of the detailed flowfield is revealed, and the value of the design methods that use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques is stressed. Finally, an application of such a CFD-based method is presented, using the program HERCULES that has been developed in the Computational Fluid Dynamics Unit of the National Technical University of Athens.