Numerical investigation on gas flow heat transfer and pressure drop in the shell side of spiral-wound heat exchangers

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 506-515

  Tang, QiXiong ^a,b   Chen, GaoFei ^a   Yang, ZhiQiang ^a,b   Shen, Jun ^a   Gong, MaoQiong ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; heat transfer; pressure drop; shell side; spiral wound heat exchangers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPS; FLOW OF GASES; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); WINDING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SHELL-SIDE; SPIRAL WOUND; TURBULENT SEPARATION;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 85038094330     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-017-9176-9     Document Type: Article

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