Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
668551 International Journal of Thermal Sciences 2012 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
► A finned-tube heat exchanger is numerically studied. ► Effects of tube shape on flow, heat transfer and entropy production are studied. ► Reducing the tube ellipticity leads to entropy production decrease. ► Reducing the tube ellipticity leads to thermalhydraulic performances increase. ► An equipartition distribution of irreversibilities is noted when ellipticity decreases.
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Tube pattern effect on thermalhydraulic characteristics in a two-rows finned-tube heat exchanger
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