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State of the art on flow and heat transfer performance of compact fin-and-tube heat exchangers

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The need for better thermal–hydraulic performance of heat exchangers remains the primary reason for further improving the design of heat exchanger. Various investigations have been carried out on the design and performance of fin-and-tube heat exchangers (HEs). Different HE designs were made available that can enhance the heat transfer and reduce the pressure drop. Recently, existing heat exchangers are either have been improved or replaced by newly emerged heat exchangers with better thermal–hydraulic performance. In this review, fin-and-tube HEs’ thermal–hydraulic performance investigation methods and their detailed flow and heat transfer analyses results are summarized. This review also critically surveyed the major heat transfer enhancers and their configuration, geometry and material type effects on thermal–hydraulic performance. Furthermore, a summary of both the theoretical and experimental studies on HEs’ performance is made. Also, the effects of tubes dimension, arrangement and number rows on HEs’ performance have been discussed. Furthermore, different ways to optimize the geometrical and process parameters of the fin-and-tube HEs were studied, considering the heat transfer enhancement, pumping power, size of the heat exchanger, and other economic factors. Finally, future studies and perspective in the field of fin-and-tube HEs are included.

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Abbreviations

D :

Tube diameter (mm)

\({\text{D}}_{\text{h}}\) :

Hydraulic diameter of the tube (m)

f :

Friction factor

\(F_{\text{p}}\) :

Fin pitch (mm)

\(F_{\text{h}}\) :

Fin height (mm)

h :

Convection heat transfer coefficient

J :

Heat transfer factor

k :

Thermal conductivity of the tube (W/m k)

L :

Length of the tube (m)

N :

Number of tube rows

\(P_{\text{l}}\) :

Longitudinal tube pitch

\(t_{\text{p}}\) :

Fin height (mm)

\(u_{ \hbox{max} }\) :

Maximum velocity of the fluid (m/s)

U :

Overall heat transfer coefficient

V :

Air velocity (m/s)

Nu:

Nusselt number

Re:

Reynolds number

\(\rho\) :

Density of the fluid (kg/m3)

\(\Delta P\) :

Pressure drop (Pa)

θ :

Attack angle

e :

Elliptical eccentricity

δ :

Fin thickness (mm)

\(\alpha_{\text{VG}}\) :

Angle of attack of the vortex generators

CHEs:

Compact heat exchangers

CRVGs:

Curved rectangular vortex generators

CDWVGs:

Curved delta-winglet vortex generators

DO:

Direct optimization

DWLVGs:

Delta-winglet longitudinal vortex generators

DWRVGs:

Delta-winglet rectangular vortex generators

DWVGs:

Delta-winglet vortex generators

Exp:

Experimental

HEs:

Heat exchangers

IR:

Infrared thermography

LVs:

Longitudinal vortex

NCWPs:

Novel combined winglet pairs

PIV:

Particle image velocimetry

PRVGs:

Punched rectangular vortex generators

PTVGs:

Punched triangular vortex generators

RWVGs:

Rectangular winglet vortex generators

VGs:

Vortex generators

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Adam, A.Y., Oumer, A.N., Najafi, G. et al. State of the art on flow and heat transfer performance of compact fin-and-tube heat exchangers. J Therm Anal Calorim 139, 2739–2768 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-08971-6

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