Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Heat exchangers are used widely in many industries for heat recovery or cooling purposes.This paper developed a numerical model to simulate a counter flow parallel heat exchanger.A representative repeating unit cell of the multichanneled heat exchanger was taken as the computational domain, which includes a cold channel and a hot channel separated by plates.The model was simulated in COMSOL for an oil to water heat exchanger.Higher temperature oil and relatively lower temperature water entered two separate parallel channels in opposite directions.The detailed distributions of temperature, velocity, and pressure were used to analyze the performance of the heat exchanger.It was found the model can be used to provide guidance for designing an optimal heat exchanger.
Authors: Ruoxu Jia, Junling Hu, Abubaker E.M. Elbalsohi
Institution: University of Bridgeport
Language: English
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2591396291