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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (12): 3832-3842.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2015.0053

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Flow and heat transfer performance of double U-shaped-tubes modeled heat exchanger

LIU Xiyue1, ZHANG Jingzhou1,2, LI Gangtuan3, KANG Yong3   

  1. 1. Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;
    2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Aero-Engine, Beijing 100191, China;
    3. China Gas Turbine Establishment, Chengdu 610500, China
  • Received:2015-01-12 Revised:2015-02-26 Online:2015-12-15 Published:2015-03-11

Abstract:

In order to investigate the flow and heat transfer performances of double U-shaped-tubes modeled heat exchanger, model experiments were conducted in a low-speed high-temperature wind tunnel and numerical calculations were also conducted using Fluent-CFD software. The effects of tube cross-sectional shape and heat exchanger inclined angle on the pressure drop and recuperator effectiveness were obtained. The results show that the internal pressure drop for the elliptic-tube heat exchanger is increased by about 50%-60% relative to the circular-tube heat exchanger at the same averaged flow velocity inside the U-shaped tube. For the external flow, the pressure drop is significantly increased as the increase of heat exchanger inclined angle. At inclined angle of 30°, the pressure drop outside the elliptic-tube heat exchanger is significantly lower than that of the circular-tube heat exchanger with approximately 50% decrease. As the heat exchanger inclined angle increases, the recuperator effectiveness is significantly improved. By comparison with the effect of inclined angle, the tube shape has a weak influence on the recuperator effectiveness. The internal flow entering-gathering mode has moderate effect on the recuperator effectiveness of U-shaped-tubes heat exchanger.

Key words: U-shaped-tubes heat exchanger, inclined angle, tube cross-sectional shape, pressure drop, recuperator effectiveness

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