Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristic research of sine wavy flying-wing fins

Abstract

In recent years, heat transfer enhancement of heat exchange equipment has attracted more and more attention. In this paper, the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of sine wavy flying-wing fins are studied by numerical method. The objective is to improve the integrated heat transfer and pressure drop performance of sine wavy flying-wing fins. The degrees of freedom of fin sizes include fin pitch to fin height ratio fp/fh, fin height to fin wavelength ratio fh/W, fin amplitude to fin pitch ratio 2A/fp and fin inclined angle α. The results show that among the calculated 17 flying-wing fins, the optimal values of fp/fh, fh/W, 2A/fp, and α are 0.5, 0.4, 1.9 and 70° respectively. The optimized SWFWF simulation model is established, and the average JF factor is 1.307, which is about 10.9% higher than that of Fin 05 (JF = 1.18). Multiple linear regression is used to obtain the correlations of flow and heat transfer characteristics of flying-wing fins. The average deviation of the correlations for j and f are 0.85% and 4.9% respectively. The correlations can be used for the design and optimization of sine wavy flying-wing fins.