TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and design optimization of novel polymer heat exchanger using the multi-objective genetic algorithm
AU - Han, Ukmin
AU - Kang, Heeseung
AU - Lim, Hongyoung
AU - Han, Jeongwan
AU - Lee, Hoseong
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). (No. 2019R1C1C1011195 ).
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). (No. 2019R1C1C1011195).
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Recently, there has been great attention to find new materials of a heat exchanger to replace aluminum which has been typically used for a long time as a basic material of heat exchangers. In this context, polymeric materials are considered as candidates due to their characteristics of lightweight and excellent corrosion resistance. Despite substantial benefits of polymeric materials, there is a critical issue as used for the heat exchanger, which is the low heat transfer performance due to their extremely low thermal conductivity. In this study, to overcome this limitation, a novel polymer heat exchanger is proposed with the new heat flow design. The finless teardrop-shaped tube bundle polymer heat exchanger is newly designed and its thermal-hydraulic performances are investigated with experiments and simulations. Then, the geometries of the novel polymer heat exchanger are optimized to maximize the thermal and hydraulic performance by using the online approximation-assisted optimization technique.
AB - Recently, there has been great attention to find new materials of a heat exchanger to replace aluminum which has been typically used for a long time as a basic material of heat exchangers. In this context, polymeric materials are considered as candidates due to their characteristics of lightweight and excellent corrosion resistance. Despite substantial benefits of polymeric materials, there is a critical issue as used for the heat exchanger, which is the low heat transfer performance due to their extremely low thermal conductivity. In this study, to overcome this limitation, a novel polymer heat exchanger is proposed with the new heat flow design. The finless teardrop-shaped tube bundle polymer heat exchanger is newly designed and its thermal-hydraulic performances are investigated with experiments and simulations. Then, the geometries of the novel polymer heat exchanger are optimized to maximize the thermal and hydraulic performance by using the online approximation-assisted optimization technique.
KW - CFD simulation
KW - Multi-objective optimization
KW - Online approximation-assisted optimization
KW - Polymer heat exchanger
KW - Tube bundle heat exchanger
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118589
DO - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118589
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071480254
VL - 144
JO - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
JF - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
SN - 0017-9310
M1 - 118589
ER -