Open AccessNUMERICAL ANALYSIS ON PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF A MICROCHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER WHEN RECTANGULAR FINS ARE REPLACED WITH TRIANGULAR FINS
Author(s) -
Jayasree Bethapudi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of engineering applied science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-2143
DOI - 10.33564/ijeast.2020.v05i04.047
Subject(s) - heat exchanger , microchannel , materials science , fin , mechanics , micro heat exchanger , plate fin heat exchanger , mechanical engineering , plate heat exchanger , engineering , composite material , physics
Microchannels are being used in many fields like heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration, automobiles, biomedical mechanical applications etc. When there are various shapes of microchannels like rectangle, straight channel, segmented, cylindrical, triangle, square are available, most of the manufacturers desire to use rectangle shape as they are simple in design and easy to manufacture. In this study we are comparing the rectangular shape to triangular shape and see which is beneficial for a manufacturer by analyzing their performance characteristics using some parameters like heat flux ranging from 100-500kw/m2, temperature ranging from 100-500K and Reynolds number ranging from 100-500. The work is done using ANSYS software which delivers product modeling solutions with unmatched scalability. Keywords— Microchannel heat exchanger, Triangular fins, Rectangular fins