Experimental and analytical investigation of shell-side flow distribution effects on axial-flow heat exchangers
Abstract
To investigate the bundle flow pattern and verify design methods, an air flow model of the heat exchanger inlet region was built and tested. This model provided useful data for design of heat exchangers of this type. The model was also used to verity the accuracy of a computer model for use in design analysis of heat exchanger flow patterns.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Winter Ann. Meeting of the ASME Technol. and Soc. Div
- Pub Date:
- July 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981asme.meetQR...C
- Keywords:
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- Axial Flow;
- Flow Distribution;
- Heat Exchangers;
- High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors;
- Radial Flow;
- Thermal Stresses;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer