Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger
Problem Statement: It is an analysis of a Counterflow Heat exchanger, to cool the engine oil for a large industrial gas turbine engine. The water and oil enter the outer annulus and inner tube respectively. CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the process of mathematically modelling a physical phenomenon involving fluid flow and solving it numerically using the computational process. In a CFD software analysis, the examination of fluid flow by its physical properties such as velocity, pressure, temperature, density and viscosity is conducted. To virtually generate an accurate solution for a physical phenomenon associated with fluid flow, those properties have to be considered simultaneously. A mathematical model of the physical case and a numerical method are used in a CFD software tool to analyze the fluid flow. For instance, the Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations are specified as the mathematical model of the physical case. This describes changes in all those physic...