Sanaye, Sepehr; Hajabdollahi, Hassan - In: Applied Energy 87 (2010) 6, pp. 1893-1902
Thermal modeling and optimal design of compact heat exchangers are presented in this paper. [epsilon]-NTU method was applied to estimate the heat exchanger pressure drop and effectiveness. Fin pitch, fin height, fin offset length, cold stream flow length, no-flow length and hot stream flow...