A generic heat exchanger for any relatively simple general purpose heat transfer process.
- Currently the nodes on the shell and tube side must be equal. The lengths do not however there are no geometry checks to ensure reasonable user input.
- The wall is currently fixed as a 2D cylinder but may be generalized in the future to allow user to select wall geometry. The 2D cyclinder though does not require the tubes/shell to be cylinders but will potentially impact the results depending on what thermal resistance dominates.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Geometry | Geometry |
| Medium_shell | Shell side medium |
| Medium_tube | Tube side medium |
| Material_tubeWall | Tube wall material |
| FlowModel_shell | Shell side flow models (i.e., momentum, pressure loss, wall friction) |
| HeatTransfer_shell | Shell side coefficient of heat transfer |
| FlowModel_tube | Tube side flow models (i.e., momentum, pressure loss, wall friction) |
| HeatTransfer_tube | Tube side coefficient of heat transfer |
| InternalTraceGen_tube | |
| InternalTraceGen_shell | |
| InternalHeatGen_tube | |
| InternalHeatGen_shell |