Unity Mach number axial dispersion model for heat exchanger design

Turbulence Model Comparison for Compact Plate Heat Exchanger Design Application

In the framework of the Gas-Power Conversion System for the Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration (ASTRID) project design, works done at CEA are focused on the design of the sodium-gas heat exchanger. Compact plate heat exchangers are indicated as the most suitable technology for such applications. An innovative compact heat exchanger geometry is proposed in this pa...

A Semi-Empirical Model for Porous Media Heat Exchanger Design

1 Fellow, ASME Abstract A semi-empirical model for conduction/convection in a thin “fin-like” porous wall of arbitrary composition and thickness is developed. The model assumes one-dimensional conduction in the porous matrix and one-dimensional flow of the coolant through the wall. Closed form solutions are obtained for a uniform composition and thickness porous wall having an insulated tip. An...

Applying Learnable Evolution Model to Heat Exchanger Design

A new approach to evolutionary computation, called Learnable Evolution Model (LEM), has been applied to the problem of optimizing tube structures of heat exchangers. In contrast to conventional Darwiniantype evolutionary computation algorithms that use various forms of mutation and/or recombination operators, LEM employs machine learning to guide the process of generating new individuals. A sys...

An Analytical Model for Flame Propagation through Moist Lycopodium Particles with Non-unity Lewis Number

In this investigation, the structure of one-dimensional flame propagation in uniform cloud of volatile organic particles has been analyzed in which the structure of flame is divided into three zones. The first zone is preheat zone which is divided into three subzones itself. In first subzone (heating), particle cloud heated until the moisty particles reach to vapor vaporization temperature. In ...

Selection of Suitable Geometry in Compact Heat Exchanger Design