抄録
The objective of the present study is to develop a method which is generally applicable to the prediction of the axially local heat transfer coefficient for refigerants flowing in horizontal evaporator tubes. Existing correlations were compared with a data base, which was established from a large number of sources of measurements, covering a wide range of conditions. For an annular flow regime, correlations by Jung et al. and Takamatsu et al. had best accuracies of prediction but they were less accurate in the region of high Boiling number. No correlation was found to be generally applicable in a separated flow regime. A new general prediction method was, therefore, developed for both regimes. The correlation obtained for the annular flow regime has a good precision even in the region of high Boiling number. The prediction method proposed for the separated flow rigime, which takes account of the effect of circumferential heat conduction in the tube wall, is generally applicable irrespective of the tube material, its geometrical parameters and its heated conditions.
