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Front Energ Power Eng Chin    2010, Vol. 4 Issue (4) : 546-552    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-010-0116-8
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Convective heat transfer in helical coils for constant-property and variable-property flows with high Reynolds numbers
Yufei MAO(), Liejin GUO, Bofeng BAI, Ximin ZHANG
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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Abstract

Forced convection heat transfer of single-phase water in helical coils was experimentally studied. The testing section was constructed from a stainless steel round tube with an inner diameter of 10 mm, coil diameter of 300 mm, and pitch of 50 mm. The experiments were conducted over a wide Reynolds number range of 40000 to 500000. Both constant-property flows at normal pressure and variable-property flows at supercritical pressure were investigated. The contribution of secondary flow in the helical coil to heat transfer was gradually suppressed with increasing Reynolds number. Hence, heat transfer coefficients of the helical tube were close to those of the straight tube under the same flow conditions when the Reynolds number is large enough. Based on the experimental data, heat transfer correlations for both incompressible flows and supercritical fluid flows through helical coils were proposed.

Keywords convective heat transfer      helical coils      high Reynolds number      supercritical pressure      variable property     
Corresponding Author(s): MAO Yufei,Email:yfmao@stu.xjtu.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 05 December 2010
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Yufei MAO,Liejin GUO,Bofeng BAI, et al. Convective heat transfer in helical coils for constant-property and variable-property flows with high Reynolds numbers[J]. Front Energ Power Eng Chin, 2010, 4(4): 546-552.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fie/EN/Y2010/V4/I4/546
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