Numerical investigation on Double Tube Counter Flow Heat Exchanger

Abstract

In the current study, the investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow Characteristics of Pure water when pass through a double tube heat exchanger (DTHX). this investigation has been conducted across various Reynolds Number to gain insights into their performance also conducted a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation using the ANSYS-FLUENT 22 R1 software. Result obtained was validated by comparing to empirical correlation data found in the existing literature. The investigation considered various operating variable as Reynolds Number and temperature across the inner, and outer tubes. Specifically, the Reynolds Number of a range of 2500 to 5500 at 333 K, and 2500 at 303 K for the respective tubes. Key findings are that friction factor is increase by 6.38% as compared to correlation (Blasius) in existing literature. And Nusselt number (Nu) increase by 40.84% as compared to correlation at the Reynolds Number (Re) of 2500. The heat transfer coefficients (hi) were increased by 8.30% as compared to existing literature.

Keywords

• computational fluid dynamics (cfd)
• blasius correlation
• concentric
• double tube heat exchanger