Experimental and numerical investigations of shell-side thermo-hydraulic performances for shell-and-tube heat exchanger with trefoil-hole baffles

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 950-956

  You, Yonghua ^a   Fan, Aiwu ^a   Lai, Xuejiang ^b   Huang, Suyi ^a   Liu, Wei ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Experimental investigation; Numerical study; Shell side performances; Shell and tube heat exchanger; Trefoil hole baffle

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL STUDY; SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS; SHELL-SIDE; TREFOIL-HOLE BAFFLE;

NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPECIFIC HEAT;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 84866535947     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.08.034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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