Effects of Some Types of Maldistribution on the Performance of Heat Exchangers

Impact of a Medium Flow Maldistribution on a Cross-Flow Heat Exchanger Performance

“…A. Mueller in (Mueller, 1987) concludes about major significance of flow maldistributions for heat exchangers performance. Based on the study of gross flow maldistribution in an experimental electrical heater the paper (Lalot et al, 1999) presents the effect of flow non-uniformity on the performance of heat exchangers.…”

Thermal Analysis of a Commercial Plate Fin Heat Exchanger With Nonuniform Inlet Flow Conditions

“…A range of ambient temperatures is given as the experiments take several days. 8 Humidity is not taken into account as no condensation occurs in the heat exchanger. For the last non-uniformity, however, the fan was not powerful enough to reach the highest air velocity target, because the pressure drop over the obstruction plate was too large.…”

“…The largest influence was found for the step non-uniformity. Mueller [8] studied the effect of several patterns of maldistribution on heat exchangers. For turbulent flow, most heat exchangers show only a small reduction in performance.…”

Evaluation of Selected Methods of Mitigation of Media Flow Maldistribution Impact in Finned Cross-flow Heat Exchangers

“…Mueller (1987) concludes about the major significance of flow maldistributions on heat exchangers performance. Based on the study of gross flow maldistribution in an experimental electrical heater Lalot et al (1999) present the effect of flow non-uniformity on the performance of heat exchangers.…”