Determination of the heat transfer coefficient distribution on the longitudinal finned tubes in staggered arrangement using inverse and cfd method

Local heat transfer from a cylinder in tube bank has been extensively studied. In many applications such as design of heat exchangers, detailed information regarding the circumferential and longitudinal variation of heat transfer to a cylinder is required. There are many different methods for measuring local heat transfer like techniques using...

A study of fluid flow and heat transfer of three-dimensional plate-fin and tube heat exchangers by the least-squares finite element method

A numerical calculation procedure based on the least-squares finite element method (LSFEM) is employed to study the fluid flow and heat transfer in a 3-D heat exchangers with in-lined and staggered multiple-row (4 rows) tubes. In this study, the fin pitch of the heat exchanger is 8 fins per inch and the fluid flow is assumed steady,...