Heat transfer coefficient
Hi!
I was wondering if someone could help us?
We've got an odd heat exchanger (The nearest description i can come up with is a multipass cross flow) and when we use it we get massive differences in the U values we calculate...
Every time we change the flowrates or inlet temperatures of either of the fluids the U value changes. We were just wondering if this was normal or due to some miscalculation or physical goings on that we havent addressed?
I think we may be operating in the laminar regime so would this make the U values vary greatly...?
Hope someone can kick off the debate!
I was wondering if someone could help us?
We've got an odd heat exchanger (The nearest description i can come up with is a multipass cross flow) and when we use it we get massive differences in the U values we calculate...
Every time we change the flowrates or inlet temperatures of either of the fluids the U value changes. We were just wondering if this was normal or due to some miscalculation or physical goings on that we havent addressed?
I think we may be operating in the laminar regime so would this make the U values vary greatly...?
Hope someone can kick off the debate!
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