Thermal performance analysis of a tube finned surface

✍ Scribed by Kadir Bilen; Ugur Akyol; Sinan Yapici

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 153 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0363-907X
• DOI: 10.1002/er.786

✦ Synopsis

The present work submits an experimental work on the heat transfer and friction loss characteristic, employing a tube "nned heating surface kept at a constant temperature in a rectangular channel. The tube "ns attached on the surface (o.d."29 mm) were arranged as either in-line or staggered. The parameters for the study were Reynolds number (3700}30 000), depending on hydraulic diameter, the distance between the tube "ns in the #ow direction (S W /D"1.72}3.45) and the "n arrangement. The change in the Nusselt number with these parameters was determined. For both tube "n arrangements, it was observed that increasing Reynolds number increased Nusselt number, and maximum heat transfer occurred at S W /D"2.59. Thermal performances for both arrangements were also determined and compared with respect to heat transfer from the same surface without "ns. With staggered array, a heat transfer enhancement up to 25 per cent for S W /D"3.45 in staggered array was achieved in constant pumping power.