modelOilWater_CTHX

Example of an oil and water concentric tube heat exchanger
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Example 11.1 (pp. 680-682).

A counterflow, concentric tube heat exchanger with oil and water taken from Example 11.1 (pp. 680-682) of Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer by Incropera and DeWitt.

Parameters

TypeNameDefaultDescription
SI.TemperatureDifferenceDT_lm243.2Log mean temperature difference
SI.CoefficientOfHeatTransferU2_shell38.1Overall heat transfer coefficient - shell side

Components

TypeNameDefaultDescription
TRANSFORM.Fluid.BoundaryConditions.MassFlowSource_Ttube_inlet
TRANSFORM.Fluid.BoundaryConditions.Boundary_pTtube_outlet
TRANSFORM.Fluid.BoundaryConditions.MassFlowSource_Tshell_inlet
TRANSFORM.Fluid.BoundaryConditions.Boundary_pTshell_outlet
TRANSFORM.HeatExchangers.GenericDistributed_HXSTHX
SI.TemperatureDifferenceDT_lmLog mean temperature difference
SI.ThermalConductanceUAOverall heat transfer conductance
SI.CoefficientOfHeatTransferU_shellOverall heat transfer coefficient - shell side
SI.CoefficientOfHeatTransferU_tubeOverall heat transfer coefficient - tube side
SI.CoefficientOfHeatTransferalphaAvg_shellAverage shell side heat transfer coefficient
SI.ThermalResistanceR_shell
SI.CoefficientOfHeatTransferalphaAvg_tube
SI.ThermalResistanceR_tube
UserInteraction.Outputs.SpatialPlot2spatialPlot2_1
TRANSFORM.Utilities.ErrorAnalysis.UnitTestsunitTests