Applied CFD and Experiment for Automotive Compact Heat Exchanger Development 980426
This paper chronicles a heat exchanger development project that utilized an integrated development process. A combination of full-scale heat exchanger performance testing, flow visualization experiments, and computational fluid dynamics methods were used in concert to investigate flow phenomena in multilouver fins. The primary goal of this project was to confirm the flow and heat transfer enhancement mechanisms at work in multilouver fins. A second goal was correlation of flow visualization, CFD, and traditional full-scale heat exchanger testing. Excellent agreement was found between the three methods.
Citation: Beamer, H., Ghosh, D., Bellows, K., Huang, L. et al., "Applied CFD and Experiment for Automotive Compact Heat Exchanger Development," SAE Technical Paper 980426, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/980426. Download Citation
Author(s):
Henry E. Beamer, Debashis Ghosh, Kevin D. Bellows, LinJie Huang, Anthony M. Jacobi
Affiliated:
Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems
Pages: 21
Event:
International Congress & Exposition
Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference 3
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE 1998 Transactions - Journal of Passenger Cars-V107-6
Related Topics:
Computational fluid dynamics
Heat exchangers
Heat transfer
Performance tests
Imaging and visualization
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