International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.83, 604-612, 2015
Generalized heat-transfer and fluid-flow correlations for corrugated louvered fins
We report heat-transfer and fluid-flow correlations to describe the performance of heat exchangers that use corrugated louvered fins. Friction factor f and Colbum factor j were investigated with respect to the ratio of the fin pitch to the louver pitch (F-p/L-p). Whereas previous correlations cannot be applied for F-p/L-p > 1, our fand j correlations can be utilized in a wide range of F-p/L-p which is not only to F-p/L-p < 1, but also to F-p/L-p > 1, for 100 < Re < 3000. We also derived flow efficiency eta correlation which is applicable for 0.3 < L-p sinL(alpha)/F-p < 0.7, where L-alpha, is the louver angle, in 100 < Re < 3000 within an error of +/- 15%. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.