Abstract: Laminar hydrodynamic entry length solutions for circular and noncircular ducts are essential in proper design of compact heat exchangers and other heat transfer and fluid flow devices. A closed ...

Abstract: Neighboring passages in a compact heat exchanger such as a rotary regenerator are never geometrically identical due to manufacturing tolerances. This passage-to-passage nonuniformity can result in ...

Abstract: Basic heat transfer and flow friction design data are presented for eight offset rectangular plate-fin surfaces. One of the configurations had a heat transfer area density ratio of 1772 sq ft/ ...

Abstract: The fuel cell system and fuel cell gas turbine hybrid system represent an emerging technology for power generation because of its higher energy conversion efficiency, extremely low environmental ...

Abstract: By their very nature, compact heat exchangers allow an efficient use of material, volume, and energy in thermal systems. These benefits have driven heat exchanger design toward higher compactness, ...

Abstract: A number of approaches have been employed for the design and analysis of two-fluid heat exchangers. These approaches include the effectiveness (ε or P)-number of transfer units (NTU) method, ...