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Evinb, , a Frat University, Vocational High School, 23119, Elaz, Turkey b Frat University, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, 23119 Elaz, Turkey http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2006.12.010, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions & Reprints Abstract This paper presents an experimental study of heat transfer and friction characteristics in decaying turbulent swirl flow generated by a short helical tape placed at the entrance of the test section. In the experiments, total mass flux was varied from 160 kgm2s1 to 1628 kgm2s1 and the momentum ratio (M h / M T ) was varied from 0 to 8.6. The experiments were conducted for water flow rates in the range of . Three different helical tapes with helical angels of 30, 45 and 60 were used. Experimental results confirm that, the use of a helical tape inserted to the tube leads to a higher heat transfer rate than the non-swirling flow. The local heat transfer coefficients were found to be increasing to very high values along the downstream of the helical tape, and then decreasing with the distance (x / L ). The augmentation of heat transfer was found to be the function of the momentum ratio, M h / M T and Reynolds number. No pronounced effect of the number of the helical channels (N h ), and helical angle () on heat transfer was observed. It is found that using the helical tape can help to increase the heat transfer rate up to 20% depending on M h / M T and Re at constant pumping power. Enhancement efficiency increases with increasing momentum ratio and decreases with increasing Reynolds number.

Modeling of Heat Transfer Augmentation in a Circular Tube Fitted with Right-Left Helical Inserts in Laminar Flow Using CFD
Palani Sivashanmugam
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National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli-620015, India

Publication History: Published Online: 2008-05-26 Computational heat transfer flow modeling is one of the great challenges in the classical sciences. As with most problems in Engineering, the interest in the heat transfer augmentation is due to its extreme importance in various industrial applications. CFD simulation for the heat transfer augmentation in a circular tube fitted with right-left helical tape inserts in laminar flow conditions has been explained in this