Abstract
In this paper, the effect of turbulent flow on the thermal stresses and strains created in an annular finned-tube bundle is studied. The finite volume method and the transition SST model, along with the SIMPLE algorithm, are used to solve the flow equations, and the finite element method is used to solve the thermal stress equations in solid. The results obtained from the effective stress and strain in the annular fins bundle show that despite the temperature difference of less than 1 degree between the base and the edge of the fin, the amount of thermal stresses cannot be ignored and the asymmetric distribution of temperature in the fins leads to the shear stresses which play a key role in determining the maximum position of the effective stresses in some rows. The results show that the amount of effective stress and strain in the third and fourth rows are significantly smaller than the first and second rows. The results also show that the highest amount of the effective stress occurs in the first row and the fin base at zero-degree angle, the value of which is 0.6 MPa. The predominance of the tangential stresses at the fin base in this row is the cause of this issue. However, in the second fins onwards, although the tangential stresses are still higher, the greater asymmetry of the temperature around the fins in these rows leads to comparability of the shear stresses with tangential stresses and creates the maximum effective stress at angles other than zero degree. Therefore, according to the results of this paper, the analysis of the flow around the annular fins is necessary to calculate thermal stress and strains and it determines the vulnerable points in each tube row. It is natural that with increasing temperature difference between the base and the edge of the fin and with increasing fin hight, the importance of these studies increases.
Highlights
Today, the use of tubes bundle is one of the common methods for heat transfer in industry
It is observed that the distribution of the radial, tangential and shear stresses in fin of the row 1 is different from other rows which is due to having different temperature gradient in the fin of row 1 than other rows
The thermal stresses and strains in a four-row annular finned-tube bundle exposed to the transverse flow were analyzed
Summary
The use of tubes bundle is one of the common methods for heat transfer in industry. Alzaharnah et al [29] investigated the thermal stresses caused by the temperature distribution in the tube They studied their problem under a fully developed flow assumption and a laminar flow field with constant properties inside the tube, and examined the problem as the symmetric axial problem with a uniform heat flux of 1300 W/m2 on the outer wall with an inlet fluid temperature of 293 K. They investigated the effect of diameter, thickness and length of the tube on the thermal stresses created in three different compositions and 27 different samples. The innovation of the present paper can be expressed as follows: – Investigating the effect of turbulence flow on each of annular fin in four row finned-tube bundle. – Investigating the effect of different shapes of fins on the thermal effeciency of the bank of finned tubes and the thermal stresses created in the annular fins. – finding the best fin’s shape in reducing the thermal stresses created in fin with the highest thermal stress
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