In this work, conduction-convection heat transfer through a straight fin, property distribution due to convection-diffusion, and conduction heat transfer through a slab with temperature dependent thermal conductivity are evaluated using Adomian decomposition method. The results are compared with numerical and exact solutions. It is shown that the numerical simulation has some limitations and ma...

Improving heat transfer and performance in a radial, finned, shell and tube heat exchanger is studied in this study. According to the second law of thermodynamics, the most irreversibilities of convective heat transfer processes are due to fluid friction and heat transfer via finite temperature difference. Entransy dissipations are due to the irreversibilities of convective heat transfer. There...

Plate fin-tube heat exchangers are used extensively in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, process engineering, and refrigeration systems. They have a high degree of surface compactness. Substantial heat transfer enhancement is obtained as a result of the periodic starting and development of boundary layers over interrupted channels formed by the fins and their dissipation in the fin wa...

Researcher: Royce Fernandes Title: Investigation of Pin Fin Cooling Channels for Applications in Gas Turbines Institution: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Degree: Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering Year: 2016 Gas turbine blades are often cooled using internal cooling channels to prevent failure at temperatures beyond material limitations. Pin fin channels are commonly used on the t...

During cross flow in a heat exchanger, heat transfer in the front portion of the tube is more compared to back portion of the tube. This is due to less formation of vortices at the backside of the tube. For uniform heat transfer to take place throughout the tube, it is necessary to increase the vortex formation at the rear side of the tube. The aim of this study is to explore the possibilities ...

In this work, the optimization for a radiative-convective annular fin of arbitrary profile with base wall thermal resistances is considered. A fourth order Runge-Kutta method is used to solve the associated non-linear governing equations. Further differentiations yield the optimum heat transfer and the optimum fin dimensions. To facilitate the thermal design, design charts for optimum dimension...

This paper deals with an experimental study on the frosting phenomena using a fin bundle, which is an expanded model for the fins of the heat exchanger. The overall characteristics such as total frost mass, mass flux, pressure drop, sensible and latent heat fluxes and the local characteristics such as local temperature, local heat flux and local frost thickness were investigated under several e...

The main objective of this research is to analyze optimization and the thermal performance of circular porous fins with four different profiles, rectangular, convex, triangular and concave under fully wet conditions. In this research, a linear model was used for the relationship between humidity and temperature. Also, modeling is assumed one-dimensional and the temperature changes only in the d...

The world is looking towards producing products which consume less power without compromising on quality of life. The increase in use of refrigeration and air conditioning appliances are contributing to global warming. The world wide temperatures are shooting up at an increasing rate. This paper presents a design of roll bond evaporator as the heat exchanger to provide cooling in room air condi...

Fuzzy set theory is applied to quantify the non-probabilistic uncertainty alternatively termed as epistemic uncertainty. An algorithm “Fuzzy Centered Radius” has been developed for quantification of epistemic uncertainty. Uncertainty analysis is also carried out using fuzzy vertex method. Analytical solution of one dimension heat conduction and numerical solution of heat removal from circular f...