DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MINICHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER
Keywords:
Heat transfer ,mass flow rate, pressure drop, cfdAbstract
In a few heat exchangers, the fluids exchanging heat are in direct contact. In most heat
exchangers, heat transfer between fluids takes place through a separating wall or into and out of a wall in a transient
manner. Electronic device are in heavy demand for computer processor applications and generate large amount of heat.
These high power device can be cooled off very effectively by either liquid or gas coolant flowing through micro or mini
channels. Continuous research work is ongoing for developing high speed processor which generates high amount of
heat. Cooling of such particular systems requires high amount of mass flow rate and compactness is also required. , a
mini channel heat exchanger is designed with assuming inlet and outlet of hot temperature, inlet of cold water
temperature and also the mass flow rates of cold and hot water. CFD technique will be used to optimize model and best
available model is to be selected for manufacturing.
