Title: Numerical analysis of heat transfer in a plate heat exchanger

Authors: Nahmkeon Hur, Myungsung Lee, Byung Ha Kang, Chan-Shik Won

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. ' School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract: In the present study, a numerical methodology of the heat transfer analysis of a plate heat exchanger is investigated. An analysis method for the conjugate heat transfer between the repeating set of a cold flow passage, separating plates, and a hot flow passage of a plate heat exchanger is proposed and successfully performed by using the periodic boundary condition at the center area of the plate and appropriate inlet and outlet conditions for the two streams. Comparison of the heat transfer results of the proposed analysis method with the available experimental data showed a good agreement.

Keywords: plate heat exchangers; triangular grooved channel; counter current flow; conjugate heat transfer; CFD; computational fluid dynamics.

DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2008.021316

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 2008 Vol.8 No.7/8, pp.406 - 412

Published online: 19 Nov 2008 *

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