Vorticity Generator for Improving Heat Exchanger Efficiency

Abstract

A heat exchange tube includes a tubular conduit for flowing a working fluid therethrough and for conducting heat between the working fluid and a thermal field proximate the tube, and a wire extending axially through the tubular conduit and spaced from an inside surface of the tubular conduit. The invention also provides a method for increasing heat transfer about a tubular conduit by positioning a wire in the conduit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 20, 2002
Accession Number
ADD020041

Entities

People

  • William L. Keith

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Efficiency
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Generators
  • Governments
  • Heat Exchangers
  • Heat Transfer
  • Inventions
  • Layers
  • Patents
  • Rhode Island
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Undersea Warfare
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Electrical Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster