Abstract
In order to enhance the heat transfer coefficient of the fin used in the finned tube heat exchanger, newly designed fin surfaces, especially, with small diameter (≅4mm) pipes are developed. The experiments are made by the transient testing technique, and used the plastic fins scaling up 4 times of the actual metal fin size. The data of the heat transfer coefficient and the pressure drop are transformed to the actual metal fin data.
The fin with the anomalous staggered pipe arrangement and the bridge-like cutting-out with inclined leg portion from stream line is found to have very high overall heat transfer coefficient which is about 1.8-fold increase in comparison with the conventional Louvered fin.
In this paper the reason why such enhancement is caused is clarified by mean of the calculation based on the rectangular duct flow. The calculated values are coincident with the data of the experiment well.
