CFD Analysis of Heat Exchanger Using ANSYS Fluent In Laminar Flow

Abstract

When two liquids are constantly in touch or are separated by a solid wall such that they never combine, a heat exchanger is used to transfer heat from one fluid to the other. Every year, heat exchanger technology advances to create effective, small, and affordable heat exchangers worldwide. The community needs to be updated on this development through dialogue. Modern concentric tube heating Exchangers use forced convection to raise the chilling rate and decrease the temperature of the working fluid and temperature of the medium. The goal of this project is to utilize the theoretical framework and ANSYS FLUENT 16 software computations to analyze how the temperature decreases change with inlet temperature and velocity. Both parallel flow and counter flow heat exchanger models were used in the design and simulation of each heat exchanger. Parallel and counter flow heat exchanger results were compared. For the inlet velocity and inlet temperature of the used flowing fluid, CFD analysis was accustomed govern the temperatures of outlet for parallel and counter flow heat exchangers. "Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a study that uses numeric methods to solve the mathematical equations governing these processes in order to forecast various type of properties. The collected values for the outlet temperature were utilized to compute the overall heat transfer coefficient. The values obtained from the experiment carried out on the heat exchanger setup for both parallel and counter flow are used in theoretical calculations.

Cite as

Bikrama Kesari Sahu, & Dr Ramesh Kumar Mallik. (2022). CFD Analysis of Heat Exchanger Using ANSYS Fluent In Laminar Flow. Research and Applications of Thermal Engineering, 5(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7070768