Abstract
A two-dimensional study of turbulent flow and heat transfer in a channel with circular and non-circular tubes has been carried out using the CFD Fluent software package. Four non-circular tubes were investigated: flat, ellipse, cam, and drop-shaped. Reynolds number varied in the range of 7300 ≤ Re ≤ 14600. All tubes were investigated under similar operating conditions. Local heat transfer, pressure, and friction coefficients over a surface of the tubes were presented. The thermal-hydraulic performance was used to estimate the efficiency of the non-circular tubes. The results indicated that the drop-shaped tube has the best thermal-hydraulic performance, which was about 5.6, 2.6, 1.7, 1.3 times higher than that of the circular, flat, ellipse, cam tube, respectively.
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