RESEARCH ARTICLE

Convective heat transfer in helical coils for constant-property and variable-property flows with high Reynolds numbers

  • Yufei MAO ,
  • Liejin GUO ,
  • Bofeng BAI ,
  • Ximin ZHANG
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  • State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Received date: 30 Apr 2010

Accepted date: 05 Jun 2010

Published date: 05 Dec 2010

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Forced convection heat transfer of single-phase water in helical coils was experimentally studied. The testing section was constructed from a stainless steel round tube with an inner diameter of 10 mm, coil diameter of 300 mm, and pitch of 50 mm. The experiments were conducted over a wide Reynolds number range of 40000 to 500000. Both constant-property flows at normal pressure and variable-property flows at supercritical pressure were investigated. The contribution of secondary flow in the helical coil to heat transfer was gradually suppressed with increasing Reynolds number. Hence, heat transfer coefficients of the helical tube were close to those of the straight tube under the same flow conditions when the Reynolds number is large enough. Based on the experimental data, heat transfer correlations for both incompressible flows and supercritical fluid flows through helical coils were proposed.

Cite this article

Yufei MAO , Liejin GUO , Bofeng BAI , Ximin ZHANG . Convective heat transfer in helical coils for constant-property and variable-property flows with high Reynolds numbers[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2010 , 4(4) : 546 -552 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-010-0116-8

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Creative Research Groups (Grant No. 50821064).
Notation
cpisobaric specific heat capacity/(J·kg-1·K-1)
Dcoil diameter of the test section/m
dinner diameter of the test section/m
Gmass velocity/(kg·m-2·s-1)
Hspecific enthalpy/(J·kg-1)
hheat transfer coefficient/(W·m-2·K-1)
NuNusselt number
ppressure/Pa
PrPrandtl number
qheat flux/(W·m-2)
ReReynolds number
Ttemperature/K
Greek symbols
λthermal conductivity/(W·m-1·K-1)
μdynamic viscosity/(N·s·m-2)
ρdensity/(kg·m-3)
Subscripts
Bbulk condition
calcalculation
expexperiment
pcpseudo critical point
Wwall condition
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