A Critical Review of Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques for Use in Marine Condensers.

Abstract

A variety of heat transfer enhancement techniques are reviewed and evaluated for use in marine condensers. This review includes tube-side enhancement, as well as shell-side enhancement techniques. At present, the most promising technique to enhance heat transfer on the tube side is with one of the commercially available, mildly indented, corrugated tubes. With this type of tube, the shell-side heat transfer enhancement is not as large and is uncertain due to the, as yet determined, complex effects of vapor shear and condensate inundation. Large bundle tests with enhanced tubing are therefore required before the details of tube-to-tube interaction will be fully understood. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121971

Entities

People

  • Paul J. Marto
  • Robert H. Nunn

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coatings
  • Condenser Tubes
  • Films
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Organic Materials
  • Resistance
  • Substrates
  • Thermal Resistance
  • Thick Films
  • Thin Films

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.