Compact Heat ExchangersKrieger Publishing Company, 1998 - 335 pages This text compiles experimental data on the basic heat transfer and flow friction characteristics of compact heat exchangers. The data can be applied to space heating, spacecraft heat exchangers, aircraft heat exchangers and various cooling systems. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Heat Exchanger Thermal and PressureDrop Design | 11 |
The Transient Response of Heat Exchangers | 79 |
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10-3m Fin metal 10-3m Flow passage 10-3m Total heat AIR SIDE aluminum annulus area/volume between plates ASME BEST INTERPRETATION capacity rate Chap circular tubes Cmax Cmin Cmin/Cmax constant heat rate counterflow Cr/Cmin crossflow curves direct-transfer equation exchanger effectiveness f Re StPr2/3 Fin area/total area Fin length Fin metal thickness Fin pitch flow arrangement flow geometry Flow normal Flow passage hydraulic friction factor ft² ft²/ft³ glass ceramic header heat exchanger heat exchanger design heat transfer area/volume heat transfer coefficients heat transfer rate heat transfer surfaces intercooler laminar flow Louver m²/m³ Fin area/total m³/kg matrix surfaces nondimensional number of heat number of transfer Nusselt numbers parameters passage hydraulic diameter Plate spacing Prandtl number pressure drop Reynolds number solutions Staggered StPr Strip-fin plate-fin surface Table thermal thermal conductivity Total heat transfer transfer and flow-friction Transfer and Friction transfer area/total volume tube banks turbulent flow