Application of Equipartition of Entransy Loss Principle in Heat Exchangers

Abstract:

The entransy loss minimization approach for the heat exchanger optimization design was established by Guo Z Y; the study based Guo Z Y’s works, found relationship between the entransy loss uniformity and the heat exchanger performance and the expression of the local entransy loss rate for heat convection was derived, numerical results of the heat transfer in a chevron plate heat exchanger and helix baffle heat exchanger show that the larger entransy loss uniformity factor appear in about Re=2000 and the entransy loss uniformity factor of chevron plate heat exchanges higher than helix baffle one.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 629)
• Pages: 699-703
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.629.699
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Chun Sheng Guo, Wen Jing Du, Lin Cheng
• Keywords: Entransy Loss, Heat Exchanger, Heat Transfer, Numerical Simulation, Resistance

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