Heat Exchangers: Design, Experiment and Simulation

This book covers research and development in fundamental areas of heat exchangers, which include: Design and theoretical development Experiments Numerical modeling and simulations. The book is intended to be a useful reference source and guide to researchers, postgraduate students, and engineers in the fields of heat exchangers, cooling, and thermal management.

Contents
Preface
1 Introductory Chapter: An Overview of Design, Experiment and Numerical Simulation of Heat Exchangers
2 Basic Design Methods of Heat Exchanger
3 Design of Heat Transfer Surfaces in Agitated Vessels
4 Heat Exchanger Design with Topology Optimization
5 A Multi-Period Synthesis Approach to Designing Flexible Heat- Exchanger Networks
6 Basic Aspects of Gas Turbine Heat Transfer
7 Direct-Contact Heat Exchanger
8 Measurement of Transient Fluid Temperature in the Heat Exchangers
9 Transient Effectiveness Methods for the Dynamic Characterization of Heat Exchangers
10 Unsteady Mixed Convection from Two Isothermal Semicircular Cylinders in Tandem Arrangement
11 Computational Modeling of Vehicle Radiators Using Porous Medium Approach