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CORRELATION FOR TURBULENT CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER IN ELLIPTICAL TUBES BY NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS

Mo Yang, Xiaoming Wang, Zhiyun Wang, Zheng Li, Yuwen Zhang
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer (FHMT) 11 - 7 (2018)


Abstract


Turbulent convective heat transfer in an elliptical pipe are investigated numerically in this paper. The RSM model is employed in the simulations of elliptical tubes with different aspect ratio a/b and Reynolds numbers within the range of 10,000~120,000. It is found that the maximum deviation between the numerical result and the one from Dittus-Boelter equation contained a hydraulic diameter is 28.4%. Based on simulation results, the correlation between the Nusselt number and Reynolds number in the fully developed fluid section of the elliptical tube is obtained.



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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5098/hmt.11.7

ISSN: 2151-8629