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Heat transfer; thermal stress; grooved tubes

Heat transfer and thermal stresses, induced by temperature differences in the internally grooved tubes of heat transfer equipment, have been analysed numerically. The analysis has been conducted for four different kinds of internally grooved tubes and three different mean inlet water velocities. Constant temperature was applied from the external surface of the tube. Energy and governing flow equations were solved using finite difference scheme. Finite element method (FEM) was used to compute the thermal stress fields. Grooving effects on the thermal stress ratio have been discussed. As a result, maximum thermal stress occurs in the case ofp =d for all water inlet velocities. The maximum thermal stress ratio positions inside the tube have been indicated as MX for all investigated cases. In the light of the thermal stress values, various designs can be applied to reduce thermal stress in grooved tubes.

Veysel Özceyhan¹ Necdet Altuntop¹

1. Makine Mühendisligi Bölümü, Erciyes Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi, Kayseri - 38039, Turkey

Published

August 2005

Manuscript received

28 April 2004

Manuscript revised

11 February 2005