Heat transfer characteristics of parallel and counter flow micro-channel heat exchangers with varying wall resistance

DOI10.1504/PCFD.2011.042183MaRDI QIDQ392905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. M. Maqableh, A. F. Khadrawi, M. A. Al-Nimr, S. A. Ammourah, A. C. Benim

Publication date 15 January 2014

Published in Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1504/pcfd.2011.042183

zbMATH Keywords

counter flowheat exchangersheat transfermicrochannelsmodellingnumerical simulationparallel flowwall resistance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Forced convection (76R05)

Review text

Summary: Thermal behaviours of parallel and counter flow micro-heat exchanger are investigated numerically, with emphasis on the role of wall resistance and thermal entry effects. The influence of different parameters, such as, thermal resistance (\(R\)), Knudsen number (\(Kn\)), effectiveness (\(\varepsilon\)) and Number of Transfer Units (NTU) are investigated. It is found that the temperature jump at the walls increases with increasing \(R\) and \(Kn\). On the other hand, the NTU increases with decreasing \(R\) and \(Kn\). Furthermore, for counter flow, thermally fully developed flow may not exist over a large section of the heat exchanger due to the heat conduction in the separating wall and the entrance region.

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