Effect of Wire Pitch on Capacity of Single Staggered Wire and Tube Heat Exchanger Using Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation

Design, Performance, and Optimization of the Wire and Tube Heat Exchanger

“…Numerical model in this chapter will be discussed based on the two approaches, that is, the finite element method (FEM) whose program was developed and run using a MATLAB program [24,25] and the FEM using ANSYS Fluent for the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach [25][26][27]. For the FEM developed in MATLAB, the finite element was modeled as wire-tube element which is shown in Figure 3.…”

“…For detailed simulation, the heat transfer process that was coupled with the fluid dynamics was modeled and solved using CFD Software package of ANSYS Fluent. Details of the step-by-step procedure of CFD can be found elsewhere [26,27]. In this simulation, preprocessing, solving, and post-processing steps were respectively executed.…”

“…It is already discussed that the numerical model is helpful to assist the optimization of a single-staggered wire and tube heat exchanger. Here, we further present the numerical study using CFD of single-staggered wire and tube heat exchanger with varying wire pitch (7, 9, and 11 mm) and inlet fluid temperature (40, 60, and 80°C) [26]. In this case, the inlet mass flow was set to 2 Â 10 À3 kg s À1 .…”

Nanofluid-Enhancing Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Effectiveness with Modified Baffle Architecture

“…Heat exchanger is considered a vital component in thermal process required in a wide range of industries. This heat exchanger is typically employed for condensation, sterilization, pasteurization, fractionation, distillation, and crystallization [1][2][3]. This implies that the heat exchanger shall possess an optimized design to yield the highest possible effectiveness while having a compact dimension.…”

“…In general, heat transfer in a heat exchanger is substantially dominated by convection and conduction. The convection is significantly affected by the geometry of the heat exchanger and some dimensionless numbers, including Reynolds number (Re), Nusselt number (Nu) and Prandtl numbers (Pr) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. It should be noted that Re, Nu and Pr are dependent on the flow rate and fluid properties including the density, absolute viscosity, specific heat and thermal conductivity.…”