ISSN Online: 2377-424X
ISBN Print: 0-85295-345-3
International Heat Transfer Conference 10
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF HEAT EXCHANGERS
Résumé
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.