“…A lot of related research works (Fleming, 1967;Chiou, 1978Chiou, , 1980Lalot et al, 1999;Ranganayakulu and Seetharamu, 1999a,b;Bobbili et al, 2002Bobbili et al, , 2006Yuan, 2003;Jiao et al, 2003;Wen and Li, 2004;Jiao and Baek, 2005;Srihari et al, 2005) have proved that flow maldistribution reduces significantly the idealized heat exchanger performance especially in mini-scale heat exchangers and finding effective methods to solve this problem is a real challenge faced by researchers and engineers.…”