Thermal hydraulic performance analysis of a printed circuit heat exchanger using a helium-water test loop and numerical simulations

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 4064-4073

  Kim, In Hun ^a   No, Hee Cheon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fanning factor; Heat transfer enhancement; Nusselt number; Printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE); Thermal hydraulic performance

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; CORRECTION FACTORS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FANNING FACTOR; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS COOLED REACTOR; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUSSELT NUMBER CORRELATION; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PRINTED CIRCUIT HEAT EXCHANGER (PCHE); PRINTED CIRCUIT HEAT EXCHANGERS; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; HELIUM; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; PRINTED CIRCUITS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 80052952184     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.08.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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