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A numerical and experimental analysis of heat transfer in a wavy fin-and-tube heat exchanger

A physical process of heat transfer on the air-side of a wavy fin-and-tube heat exchanger has been analysed numerically and experimentally in this paper. The heat exchanger studied has three rows of circular tubes in a staggered arrangement. A three-dimensional steady-state fluid flow and heat transfer mathematical model has been solved using CFD software based on control volume numerical method. The numerical results have been compared to experimental measurements and Wang’ s empirical correlations. Compatibility between the results has been found.

Heat exchanger; finned tube; numerical analysis; experiment

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