Static mixers: Mechanisms, applications, and characterization methods–A review

A Ghanem, T Lemenand, D Della Valle… - … research and design, 2014 - Elsevier
Static mixers and multifunctional heat exchangers/reactors (MHE/R) are qualified as efficient
receptacles for processes including physical or chemical transformations accompanied by …

A review of flow and heat transfer characteristics in curved tubes

P Naphon, S Wongwises - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
The performance of heat exchangers can be improved to perform a certain heat-transfer duty
by heat transfer enhancement techniques. In general, these techniques can be divided into …

A review of heat transfer and pressure drop correlations for laminar flow in curved circular ducts

M Ghobadi, YS Muzychka - Heat Transfer Engineering, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Heat transfer and pressure drop correlations for fully developed laminar Newtonian fluid flow
in curved and coiled circular tubes are reviewed. Curved geometry is one of the passive …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental characterization of axial dispersion in coiled flow inverters

D Rossi, L Gargiulo, G Valitov, A Gavriilidis… - … Research and Design, 2017 - Elsevier
Narrow residence time distributions (RTDs) are desirable in many chemical engineering
processes. However, when a system operates in the laminar flow regime, significant fluid …

Numerical simulation of steady flow fields in coiled flow inverter

V Kumar, KDP Nigam - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2005 - Elsevier
Flatter velocity profiles and more uniform thermal environments are extremely desirous
factors for improved performance in flow reactors and heat exchangers. One means of …

A comparative evaluation of double-pipe heat exchangers with enhanced mixing

Y Zhang, M Hangi, X Wang, A Rahbari - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Double-pipe heat exchangers have been widely used in various industries, and the efficient
design of these heat exchangers has received a significant research impetus. Chaotic …

A study of the heat transfer characteristics of a compact spiral coil heat exchanger under wet-surface conditions

P Naphon, S Wongwises - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2005 - Elsevier
The heat transfer characteristics and the performance of a spiral coil heat exchanger under
cooling and dehumidifying conditions are investigated. The heat exchanger consists of a …

Pulsatile viscous flow in a curved pipe: Effects of pulsation on the development of secondary flow

B Timité, C Castelain, H Peerhossaini - … Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2010 - Elsevier
This work presents an experimental and numerical study of pulsated Dean flow, three-
dimensional pulsatile flow in a curved pipe. The numerical study is performed by CFD code …

Heat transfer enhancement by chaotic advection in a novel sine-helical channel geometry

A Aldor, Y Moguen, K El Omari, C Habchi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present an innovative sine-helical heat exchanger whose channel
geometry consists in a combination of a helically coiled geometry and a sine-wave …

Torsion and curvature effects on fluid flow in a helical annulus

MRH Nobari, A Malvandi - International journal of non-linear mechanics, 2013 - Elsevier
In this article incompressible viscous flow in a helical annulus is studied numerically. A
second order finite difference method based on the projection algorithm is used to solve the …