Journal
HEAT TRANSFER ENGINEERING
Volume 35, Issue 6-8, Pages 703-710Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2013.837780
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- International Cooperation and Exchanges Project of NSFC of China [51120165002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51025623, 51276139]
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The air inlet flow direction is not orthogonal to the heat exchanger surface in many cases. To study the performance of the heat transfer and pressure drop of a heat exchanger with different air inlet angles, this paper shows the experimental system about a finned oval-tube heat exchanger inclined toward the air incoming flow direction. The heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of four air inlet angles (90 degrees, 60 degrees, 45 degrees, and 30 degrees) are studied separately for the Reynolds number ranging from 1300 to 13000 in this study. The experimental correlations of Nusselt number and resistance coefficient of the air side are acquired. The results show that the overall heat transfer coefficients become smaller and smaller with the decrease of the air inlet angles, while the pressure drops have significant changes. The heat transfer performances of the heat exchanger under the three inclined air inlet angles are worse than that at 90 degrees. Among the three inclined angles, the performance at 45 degrees is the best under identical mass flow rate criterion and at low Reynolds number under identical pressure drop criterion; that at 60 degrees is the best at large Reynolds under identical pressure drop criterion. Finally, some conclusions are attained about the effects of the air inlet angles on the heat transfer and pressure drop performance of the finned oval-tube heat exchanger.
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