Numerical Simulation of Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger in Dedicated Ventilation System

Abstract

Independent dedicated ventilation system is an advanced air conditioning system developed in last few years. There is little research on the design of the system at present. This paper establishes control equation of flow and temperature field based on the energy transmission theory and simulates heat pipe independent dedicated ventilation system using special flow field numerical simulation software. In pretreatment process of FLUENT, this paper uses unstructured six prisms and parallelepiped grid and encrypts grid which makes the result of calculation is more accurate. The simulation uses residual of 10-5 high precision to calculate, and obtains the residual convergence curve. Curve analysis shows that the calculation is very reliable and stable. In post-treatment process, it uses FLUENT results processing module, obtains the temperature flow pattern of heat exchanger independent dedicated ventilation system. We take one of the root canal for analysis. The result shows that the temperature in both sides of the tube is higher, and the temperature through the tube and close to the wall part is lower. It is coincide with the actual working condition of tube ventilation and heat dissipation outside the pipe. This result proves the accuracy of the numerical simulation and provides the reliable theory basis for the design of heat pipe heat exchanger independent dedicated ventilation system.