.TRANSFORM.HeatExchangers.GenericDistributed_HX_withMass

A (i.e., no inlet/outlet plenum considerations, etc.) generic heat exchanger with discritized fluid and wall volumes where concurrent/counter flow is specified mass flow direction.

Information

A generic heat exchanger for any relatively simple general purpose heat transfer process.


- Currently the nodes on the shell and tube side must be equal. The lengths do not however there are no geometry checks to ensure reasonable user input.

- The wall is currently fixed as a 2D cylinder but may be generalized in the future to allow user to select wall geometry. The 2D cyclinder though does not require the tubes/shell to be cylinders but will potentially impact the results depending on what thermal resistance dominates.

Contents

Name Description
 Geometry Geometry
 Medium_shell Shell side medium
 Medium_tube Tube side medium
 Material_wall Tube wall material
 FlowModel_shell Shell side flow models (i.e., momentum, pressure loss, wall friction)
 FlowModel_tube Tube side flow models (i.e., momentum, pressure loss, wall friction)
 HeatTransfer_shell Shell side coefficient of heat transfer
 HeatTransfer_tube Tube side coefficient of heat transfer
 InternalHeatGen_shell
 InternalHeatGen_tube
 InternalHeatModel_wall
 TraceMassTransfer_shell
 TraceMassTransfer_tube
 InternalTraceGen_shell
 InternalTraceGen_tube
 InternalMassModel_wall Internal mass generation
 DiffusionCoeff_wall Diffusion Coefficient

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