A review of recent passive heat transfer enhancement methods

SS Mousavi Ajarostaghi, M Zaboli, H Javadi… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Improvements in miniaturization and boosting the thermal performance of energy
conservation systems call for innovative techniques to enhance heat transfer. Heat transfer …

The current state on the thermal performance of twisted tapes: A geometrical categorisation approach

H Bucak, F Yılmaz - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
Twisted tapes are used in thermal performance intensification of heat exchangers. The
present paper focuses on the last eleven years experimental and numerical studies of the …

Investigations of the turbulent thermal-hydraulic performance in circular heat exchanger tubes with multiple rectangular winglet vortex generators

Z Sun, K Zhang, W Li, Q Chen, N Zheng - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This work explores the turbulent thermal-hydraulic performance in circular heat exchanger
tubes with multiple rectangular winglet vortex generators. Numerical simulations …

Hydrothermal performance of twisted elliptical tube equipped with twisted tape insert

R Mashayekhi, AH Eisapour, M Eisapour… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers are promising in terms of improving the heat transfer
efficiency on the tube side, decreasing the pressure drop on the shell side, and reducing the …

[HTML][HTML] Aerothermal performance evaluation of a tube mounted with broken V-ribbed twisted tape: Effect of forward/backward arrangement

V Chuwattanakul, K Wongcharee, P Ketain… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation on the aerothermal performance of a heat exchanger tube
equipped with newly designed broken V-ribbed twisted tapes (B-VRT), was carried out. In …

Energy, exergy, and entropy generation analyses of a water-based photovoltaic thermal system, equipped with clockwise counter-clockwise twisted tapes: An indoor …

MR Kalateh, A Kianifar, M Sardarabadi - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Nearly half of the insident solar radiation to the photovoltaic (PV) units will be converted to
heat, which leads to a high operating temperature, cell structural damage, and the lifetime …

Experimental investigation of perforated twisted tapes turbulator on thermal performance in double pipe heat exchangers

A Vaisi, R Moosavi, M Lashkari, MM Soltani - Chemical Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the experimental effect of the continuous and discontinuous twisted tapes
turbulator (perforated and non-perforated) on the inner side of the internal tube in the double …

Correlations on heat transfer rate and friction factor of a rectangular toothed v-cut twisted tape exhibiting the combined effects of primary and secondary vortex flows

SK Singh, R Kacker, PK Chaurasiya… - … Communications in Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is generally recognized that the heat transfer rate can be improved using active, passive
and compound methods. The use of twisted tape inserts in a pipe flow is one of the passive …

[HTML][HTML] Second law efficiency analysis of air injection into inner tube of double tube heat exchanger

N Sinaga, KS Nisar, A Kaood - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
At present study, thermal performance of a double tube heat exchanger due to stream of
air/water two phase flow through inner tube is experimentally studied. Air and hot water were …

Effects of the configuration of winglet vortex generators on turbulent heat transfer enhancement in circular tubes

K Zhang, Z Sun, N Zheng, Q Chen - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rectangular winglet vortex generators (RWVGs) are put forward to intensify turbulent heat
transfer in circular tubes. Two configurations of RWVGs, including parallel type (P-RWVGs) …