Following the development of the muffler with the optimal guide fins (MOGF) in the companion paper (Part 1), this study optimizes the muffler outlet in terms of structure and geometry to further improve the thermal uniformity of the hot-side heat exchanger (HHE). Two outlet structures and two outlet geometry parameters (i.e., outlet angle φ and outlet position y) are proposed. The exhaust flow uniformity of HHE serves as an assessment criterion in numerous computational fluid dynamics simulations to determine the optimal outlet structure and optimal values of φ and y.The outlet of the MOGF is then modified based on the simulation results to create the muffler with the optimal guide fins and outlet (MOGFO). Various experiments on the MOGFO are conducted to verify the simulation results and evaluate the improvement of the HHE's thermal uniformity. The simulation results prove that the optimal outlet improves the exhaust flow uniformity by 1.78% on average compared with the original outlet. In experiments, the combination of optimal muffler's outlet and optimal muffler's guide fins on the MOGFO raises the thermal uniformity of HHE by an average of 22.71% and 50% compared with the MOGF and the muffler model with nonoptimal guide fins and outlet in Part 1, respectively.
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