Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

The Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (대한설비공학회)
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Experimental Measurement and Numerical Computation on the Air-Side Forced Convective Heat Tranfer Coefficient in Plate Fin-Tube Exchangers

평판 핀 튜브 열교환기의 공기측 강제대류 열전달계수에 대한 실험 및 수치계산

  • Yoon, Young-Hwan (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Changwon National University) ;
  • Paeng, Jin-Gi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School, Changwon National University) ;
  • Yoon, Keon-Sik (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Changwon National University)
  • 윤영환 (창원대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 팽진기 (창원대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 윤건식 (창원대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2006.09.01
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Abstract

Air-side forced convective heat transfer of a plate fin-tube heat exchanger is investigated by experimental measurement and numerical computation. The heat exchanger consists of staggered arrangement of refrigerant pipes of 10.2 m diameter and the pitch of fins is 3.5 m. In the experimental study, the forced convective heat transfer is measured at Reynolds number of 1082, 1397, 1486, 1591 and 1649 based on diameter of refrigerant piping and mean velocity. Average Nusselt number for the convective heat transfer coefficient is also computed for the same Reynolds number by commercial software of STAR-CD with standard $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulent model. It is found that the relative errors of average Nusselt numbers between experimental and numerical data are less than 6 percentage in Reynolds number of $1082{\sim}1649$. The errors between experiment and other correlations are ranged from 7% to 32.4%. But the correlation of Kim at al is closest to the experimental data within 7% of the relative error.

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