Airside fin efficiencies for finned-tube heat exchangers with forced convection

作     者：LI Cheng LI JunMing ZHANG HeRan 

作者机构：Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education Department of Thermal Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China 

出 版 物：《Science China(Technological Sciences)》 (中国科学（技术科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第54卷第9期

页      面：2468-2474页

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学科分类：080705[工学-制冷及低温工程] 080702[工学-热能工程] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 

基　　金：supported by the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Project)(Grant No.2011CB706904) Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.3071001) 

主　　题：circular flu efficiency heat transfer mass transfer humid air condensation 

摘      要：The heat transfer and mass transfer fin efficiencies were analyzed numerically to show that popular models for heat transfer fm efficiency for circular fins are not always reasonable. The numerical results show that the effective heat transfer area of a circular fin increases several times faster than that of a straight fin for the same tube radius. Then, a simple but accurate heat transfer fin efficiency model was developed and verified by numerical results for a wide range of fin designs. This model predicts the heat transfer fin efficiency with absolute errors of less than 1%. The heat transfer and mass transfer fin efficiencies were found to be quite different for typical air flow with low relative humidity. Thus, these two fin efficiencies should not be assumed to be equal and a mass transfer fin efficiency model was developed, based on the heat transfer fin efficiency model. These heat transfer and mass transfer fin efficiencies are very useful for more accurate prediction for a wide range of practical applications.