THEORETICAL STUDY FOR DETERMINATION OF THE HEAT TRANSFER AND FLOW CHARACTERISTICS IN THE STAGGERED TUBE BUNDLE

Abstract

In the present paper numerical analysis of heat transfer and laminar flow structures are studied for staggered tube bundle in crossflow. This study consists of two parts. At the first part isoterms and streamlines are shown for both only single tube heated and all tubes heated cases. At the second part effect of Reynolds number is examined. The stream functionvorticity formulation is used to solve the laminar, steady state Navier-Stokes equations and energy equation by applying Gauss-Seidel over-relaxation technique. Transverse and longitudinal tube spacing is fixed as 1.75x1.5 and results are found for Re=325 and 650.

Keywords

• Tube bundle, Laminar flow and heat transfer, Numerical analysis, Effect of Re number

SAPTIRILMIŞ BORU DEMETİNDE ISI TRANSFERİ VE AKIŞ YAPILARININ BELİRLENMESİ İÇİN TEORİK ÇALIŞMA

Abstract

studied for staggered tube bundle in crossflow. This study consists of two parts. At the first part isoterms and streamlines are shown for both only single tube heated and all tubes heated cases. At the second part effect of Reynolds number is examined. The stream function- vorticity formulation is used to solve the laminar, steady state Navier-Stokes equations and energy equation by applying Gauss-Seidel over-relaxation technique. Transverse and longitudinal tube spacing is fixed as 1.75x1.5 and results are found for Re=325 and 650

Keywords

• Boru demeti, Laminer akış ve ısı transferi, Nümerik yöntem, Re sayısının etkisi

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