Article,
Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer Enhancement in Laminar Flow in Circular Tube Equipped with Different Inserts
AMAE International Journal on Manufacturing and Material Science, 1 (1): 6 (May 2011)
Abstract
An experimental investigation of heat transfer and
friction factor of a smooth tube fitted with full length twisted
tape inserts for laminar flow have been studied under uniform
wall heat flux condition. The experiments has been carried
out to study the tape fin effect by using full length tape inserts
of different materials namely Aluminum, Stainless steel and
insulated tape. The tapes have twist ratios from 5.2 to 3.4. It is
found that, for the flow in smooth tubes, full length twisted
tapes yield improvement in average Nusselt number, for
Reynolds number range of 200 to 2000.For Aluminum tapes,
the maximum improvement in Nusselt number range from
50% to 100%; for Stainless steel tapes, maximum
improvement in Nusselt number range from 40% to 94% and
for insulated tapes, maximum improvement in Nusselt
number range from 40% to 67%. The isothermal friction factor
for the flow with the twisted tape inserts are 340% to 750 %
higher as compared with those of smooth tube flow, in the
given range of twist ratios.
