DU Wenjing, WANG Hongfu, CAO Xing, et al. Heat transfer and fluid flow on shell-side of heat exchangers with novel sextant sector helical baffles[J]. CIESC Journal, 2013, (9): 3123-3129.
DU Wenjing, WANG Hongfu, CAO Xing, et al. Heat transfer and fluid flow on shell-side of heat exchangers with novel sextant sector helical baffles[J]. CIESC Journal, 2013, (9): 3123-3129.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2013.09.007.
Faced with the obvious leakage flow phenomena in the heat exchanger with quarter helical baffles
a novel sextant helical baffled heat exchanger was put forward in this paper.The 3-dimensional physical model of sextant helical baffled heat exchanger was built;numerical simulation was performed with different helical angles(10°
20°
30°
40°)under different working conditions.ANSYS CFX software was used to obtain detailed fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics on the shell-side
and comparison was made between the new and the traditional segmental baffled heat exchangers.Results indicate that the leakage flow is significantly reduced with the sextant helical baffles
and shell-side rotational flow characteristics are also improved.As the helical angle increases
the velocity field and the temperature field become much uniform
so the comprehensive heat transfer performance is improved.