• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.414-421
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• 2000

This study was discussed about the thermal characteristics of finned tube heat exchanger having two row used in the air-conditioning application. Pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient were measured and investigated for the 3 times models of plain fin. Also the temperature distribution and heat conduction in the fin was measured by using the liquid crystal method. The surface temperature of rear row was nearly constant, and heat conduction in the fin was stronger near the front row than the rear row.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.1034-1039
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• 2004

The row-by-row heat transfer characteristics of fin-and-tube heat exchangers having wavy fins were experimentally investigated. Three samples having different rows (one, two and three) were tested. Results show that the heat transfer coefficient is strongly dependent on the tube row. The heat transfer coefficient of the first row is larger than those of second or third rows. However, the difference decreases as the Reynolds number increases. The heat transfer coefficients of the second and the third row are approximately the same, probably due to increased mixing of bulk flow by wavy channels. Although samples have different tube row, the heat transfer coefficients of same row are approximately the same.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.596-600
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• 2008

An experimental study has been conducted on the free convection heat transfer for the 7 kinds of circular finned tube heat exchangers. Empirical correlation was suggested at the range of 3,500$D_o$/$D_i$<3.0, 0.19<$P_f$/$D_i$<0.34. The 92% of experimental data agreed with the correlation within 10%.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.957-963
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• 2003

The present work was conducted to investigate the air-side thermal-hydraulic performance of the brazing fin-tube heat exchanger. Pressure drop and heat transfer coefficient for a plain and a louvered fin configuration were compared numerically and experimentally. It was found that the heat transfer characteristics for the plain fin were similar to the developing flow in the rectangular channel. The louver fin showed about twice better heat transfer coefficient than the plain fin. Previous empirical correlations presented by Davenport, Sunden and Svantesson, Sahnoun and Webb, Chang and Wang, Achaichia and Cowell, and Kang were compared with the present experimental data.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.100-100
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• 2005

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.205-215
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• 2001

An experimental study has been performed to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of fin and tube heat exchanger. The existing transient and steady methods are very difficult to apply for the measurements of heat transfer coefficients of a thin heat transfer model. In this study the lumped capacitance method was adopted. The heat transfer coefficients were measured by using the lumped capacitance method based on the liquid crystal thermography. The method is validated through impinging jet and flat plate flow experiments. The two experiments showed that the results of the lumped capacitance method with polycarbonate model showed very good agreements with those of the transient method with acryl model. The lumped capacitance method showed similar results regardless of the thickness of polycarbonate model. The method was also applied for the heat transfer coefficient measurements of a fin and tube heat exchanger. The quantitative heat transfer coefficients of the plate fin were successfully obtained. As the frontal velocity increased, the heat transfer coefficients were increased, but the color-band shape showed similar patterns regardless of frontal velocity.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.318-325
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• 2009

Numerical analysis has been carried out to investigate air-side convective heat transfer characteristics in compact heat exchanger with flat tubes and continuous plate fins having a symmetric and non-symm etric staggered arrangements. Simulation results such as air velocity and temperature distributions are presented, and heat transfer coefficients are compared with previous experimental results. In order to investigate the flow and heat transfer features by periodic boundary conditions, the three blocks were used. Predicted heat transfer coefficients between the three blocks are similar while there are relatively differences, compared with the experimental data. From the calculated results a correlation for Colburn j factor in the compact heat exchanger system is suggested. The predicted results in this study can be applied to the optimal design of air conditioning system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.695-703
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• 2008

Numerical analysis has been carried out to investigate air-side convective heat transfer characteristics in a compact heat exchanger with flat tubes and continuous plate fins according to the aspect ratio. RNG k-$\varepsilon$ model is applied for turbulence analysis. Simulation results such as air velocity and temperature distributions are presented, and heat transfer coefficients are compared with previous correlations for circular tubes. The numerical conditions are considered for the aspect ratios ranging from 3.06 to 5.44 and Reynolds number ranging from 1000 to 10,000. The results showed that heat transfer coefficients decreased with the increase of aspect ratio. From the calculated results a correlation of Colburn j factor for the considered aspect ratio in the compact heat exchanger system is suggested. The predicted results in this study can be applied to the optimal design of air conditioning system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.994-1001
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• 2007

Numerical analysis has been carried out to investigate air-side convective heat transfer characteristics in a compact heat exchanger with circular tubes and continuous plate fins. Simulation results such as air velocity and temperature distributions are presented, and heat transfer coefficients are compared with previous experimental correlations. Three models of standard and RNG $k-{\varepsilon}$, and Reynolds stress are applied for turbulence model applicability. Predicted heat transfer coefficient from the models of standard and RNG $k-{\varepsilon}$ are very close to those of the heat transfer correlations while there are relatively large difference, more than 17 percentage in the result from the Reynolds stress model. From the calculated results a correlation for Colburn j factor in the compact heat exchanger system is suggested.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.179-186
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• 2008

현재 대부분의 산업용 열기관은 효율을 높이기 위하여 연소에 사용되는 공기를 예열하는 방법을 사용한다. 하지만, 산업용 열기관에서 평균적으로 발생되는 $1000^{\circ}C$ 이상의 배기가스는 일반 금속 열교환기에는 적합하지 않다. 이에 반해 세라믹 열교환기의 경우 고온에서 견디는 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 기본적인 열교환기 설계 이론을 이용하여 설계프로그램을 제작하였다. 또한 세라믹 열교환기 내 열 유체 거동을 CFD 상용코드인 FlUENT 6.2를 이용한 전산해석을 수행하여 설계결과를 비교 검증하였다. 설계 결과에서 휜의 형태 변화에 따라 열전달율과 온도구배는 무시할 수 있을 정도로 작았으나, 압력강하는 크게 변동되는 결과가 도출되었다. 제한된 모듈 크기에서 휜 간거리는 휜의 두께에 비해 약 3배 이상 클 경우가 적당하며, 판(plate)의 두께는 작을수록 압력손실이 적고, 열전달율이 상승하지만 두께가 너무 얇게 된다면 제작상의 어려움이 생긴다. 향후 연구에서는 단순한 구조에서 벗어나 off-set이나 판형구조를 고려하여 설계함으로서 열전달 면적을 넓히거나 난류유동을 발생시켜 열전달율을 높이는 연구를 진행 할 필요가 있다.