Local forced and mixed heat transfer coefficients were measured by Ghajar and Tam (1994) along a stainless steel horizontal circular tube fitted with reentrant, square-edged, and bell-mouth inlets under uniform wall heat flux condition. For the experiments the Reynolds, Prandtl, and Grashof numbers varied from about 280 to 49000, 4 to 158, and 1000 to 2.5×105, respectively. The heat transfer transition regions were established by observing the change in the heat transfer behavior. The data in the transition region were correlated by using the traditional least squares method. The correlation predicted the transitional data with an average absolute deviation of about 8%. However, 30% of the data were predicted with 10 to 20% deviation. The reason is due to the abrupt change in the heat transfer characteristic and its intermittent behavior. Since the value of heat transfer coefficient has a direct impact on the size of the heat exchanger, a more accurate correlation has been developed using the artificial neural network (ANN). A total of 1290 data points (441 for reentrant, 416 for square-edged, and 433 for bell mouth) were used. The accuracy of the new correlation is excellent with the majority of the data points predicted with less than 10% deviation.
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ASME 2003 Heat Transfer Summer Conference
July 21–23, 2003
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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A. J. Ghajar,
A. J. Ghajar
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
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L. M. Tam,
L. M. Tam
University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China
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S. C. Tam
S. C. Tam
University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China
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A. J. Ghajar
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
L. M. Tam
University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China
S. C. Tam
University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China
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HT2003-47109, pp. 235-242; 8 pages
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December 17, 2008
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Ghajar, AJ, Tam, LM, & Tam, SC. "A Simple Heat Transfer Correlation for Three Inlet Configurations Using Artificial Neural Network in the Complex Transition Flow Regime." Proceedings of the ASME 2003 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Heat Transfer: Volume 1. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. July 21–23, 2003. pp. 235-242. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2003-47109
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