State of the art on flow and heat transfer performance of compact fin-and-tube heat exchangers

AY Adam, AN Oumer, G Najafi, M Ishak… - Journal of Thermal …, 2020 - Springer
The need for better thermal–hydraulic performance of heat exchangers remains the primary
reason for further improving the design of heat exchanger. Various investigations have been …

Numerical investigation of the air-side thermal hydraulic performance of a louvered-fin and flat-tube heat exchanger at low Reynolds numbers

LB Erbay, N Uğurlubilek, Ö Altun… - Heat Transfer …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, the air-side heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of a louvered-fin and flat-
tube type heat exchanger used in the household refrigerators were investigated numerically …

Heat transfer efficiency enhancement using zigzag louvered fin

K Wanglertpanich, C Kittichaikarn - Numerical Heat Transfer, Part …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The present study numerically examines the impact of zigzag fin surface pattern structures in
a micro-channel heat exchanger on heat transfer efficiency using a commercial …

Steady state and transient analysis of compact plate-fin heat exchanger fins for generation of design data using CFD

R Chennu - International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to carry out numerical modeling of single-blow
transient analysis using FLUENT porous media model for estimation of heat transfer and …

Round Tubes Having Plain-Plate Fins

SK Saha, H Ranjan, MS Emani, AK Bharti… - … in Externally Finned …, 2020 - Springer
The performance characteristics of round tubes having plain-plate fins are discussed in this
chapter. The concepts of wavy fins, louvred fins, multi louvred fins, fin numbering, etc. are …