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The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation
As a part of vehicle thermal management, water-cooled intercoolers play an important role in engine efficiency. The incompressible simulation model was usually applied to estimate the performance of water-cooled intercoolers. In this paper, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) compressible model i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515358/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21090829 |
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author | Yu, Chao Qin, Sicheng Chai, Bosen Huang, Sen Liu, Yang |
author_facet | Yu, Chao Qin, Sicheng Chai, Bosen Huang, Sen Liu, Yang |
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description | As a part of vehicle thermal management, water-cooled intercoolers play an important role in engine efficiency. The incompressible simulation model was usually applied to estimate the performance of water-cooled intercoolers. In this paper, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) compressible model is taken to analyze more accurate prediction models. The rate of section change, heat exchange, and the surface friction coefficient are used as the comparison basis of the compressible flow model and incompressible model on the pressurized air side of the water-cooled intercooler. By comparing the simulation results of the air side, it was found that the compressible simulation is closer to the experimental value than the incompressible simulation. Compared with the experiment, the compressible model heat transfer maximum value of deviation is 6.5%, and the pressure loss maximum deviation is 7.5%. This provides guidance to optimize the design of heat exchangers, in order to save on costs and shorten development times. |
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spelling | pubmed-75153582020-11-09 The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation Yu, Chao Qin, Sicheng Chai, Bosen Huang, Sen Liu, Yang Entropy (Basel) Article As a part of vehicle thermal management, water-cooled intercoolers play an important role in engine efficiency. The incompressible simulation model was usually applied to estimate the performance of water-cooled intercoolers. In this paper, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) compressible model is taken to analyze more accurate prediction models. The rate of section change, heat exchange, and the surface friction coefficient are used as the comparison basis of the compressible flow model and incompressible model on the pressurized air side of the water-cooled intercooler. By comparing the simulation results of the air side, it was found that the compressible simulation is closer to the experimental value than the incompressible simulation. Compared with the experiment, the compressible model heat transfer maximum value of deviation is 6.5%, and the pressure loss maximum deviation is 7.5%. This provides guidance to optimize the design of heat exchangers, in order to save on costs and shorten development times. MDPI 2019-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7515358/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21090829 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yu, Chao Qin, Sicheng Chai, Bosen Huang, Sen Liu, Yang The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation |
title | The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation |
title_full | The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation |
title_short | The Effect of Compressible Flow on Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Exchanger by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation |
title_sort | effect of compressible flow on heat transfer performance of heat exchanger by computational fluid dynamics (cfd) simulation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515358/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21090829 |
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