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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER

ENHANCEMENT OF CORRUGATED TWISTED TAPE INSERT WITH
CFD ANALYSIS
K.G.KULKARNI1, S.Y.BHOSALE 2 , S. N .SATPUTE ³
1
Appearing in ME ( HEAT POWER),
PES’s Modern College Of Engineering
Shivajinagar , Pune, Maharashtra, India
Email : [email protected]
2
HOD, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
PES’s Modern College Of Engineering
Shivajinagar , Pune, Maharashtra, India
Email : [email protected]

³HOD, Department Of Mechanical Engineering

Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s College Of Engineering
Karvenagar, Pune-52 , Maharashtra ,India
Email: [email protected]
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ABSTRACT - The need to increase the thermal performance of heat I. INTRODUCTION
exchangers, thereby affecting energy, material & cost savings have Heat exchangers are widely used in various industrial
led to development & use of many techniques termed as Heat processes for heating and cooling applications such as air
transfer Augmentation. Augmentation techniques increase conditioning and refrigeration systems, heat recovery
convective heat transfer by reducing the thermal resistance in a heat
exchanger. Twisted tapes-a type of passive heat transfer
processes food and dairy processes, chemical process plants
augmentation techniques have shown significantly good results in etc.The major challenge in designing a heat exchanger is to
past studies. Different designs of twisted tapes used are-Reduced make the equipment compact and achieve a high heat transfer
width twisted tapes (RWTT), Baffled reduced width twisted tapes rate using minimum pumping power. Techniques for heat
(BRWTT1) & Baffled reduced width twisted tape with holes transfer augmentation are relevant to several engineering
(BRWTT2). The proposed work is aimed at finding the heat transfer applications. In recent years, the high cost of energy and
performance in a circular pipe by employing corrugated twisted material has resulted in an increased effort aimed at producing
tapes& also results are to be compared with plain twisted tape. These more efficient heat exchange equipment. Furthermore,
tapes will be tested for different configurations of twist ratios & sometimes there is a need for miniaturization of a heat
wave angles. It is to be verified whether corrugated nature of twisted
tape assists the heat transfer by turbulence enhancement or if it
exchanger in specific applications, such as space application,
increases the pressure drop. Also the use of „CFD‟ software is through an augmentation of heat transfer. For example, a heat
proposed for analysis work & developing correlations. exchanger for an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)
plant requires a heat transfer surface area of the order of
Heat transfer augmentation techniques (passive, active or a
combination of passive and active methods) are commonly used in 10000 m2/MW. Therefore, an increase in the efficiency of the
areas such as process industries, heating and cooling in evaporators, heat exchanger through an augmentation technique may result
thermal power plants, air-conditioning equipment, refrigerators, in a considerable saving in the material cost. Furthermore, as a
radiators for space vehicles, automobiles, etc. Passive techniques, heat exchanger becomes older, the resistance to heat transfer
where inserts are used in the flow passage to augment the heat increases owing to fouling or scaling. These problems are
transfer rate, are advantageous compared with active techniques, more common for heat exchangers used in marine
because the insert manufacturing process is simple and these applications and in chemical industries. In some specific
techniques can be easily employed in an existing heat exchanger. In applications, such as heat exchangers dealing with fluids of
design of compact heat exchangers, passive techniques of heat
low thermal conductivity (gases and oils) and desalination
transfer augmentation can play an important role if a proper passive
insert configuration can be selected according to the heat exchanger plants, there is a need to increase the heat transfer rate. The
working condition (both flow and heat transfer conditions). In the heat transfer rate can be improved by introducing a
past decade, several studies on the passive techniques of heat transfer disturbance in the fluid flow thereby breaking the viscous and
augmentation have been reported. The present paper is a review on thermal boundary layer. However, in the process pumping
progress with the passive augmentation techniques in the recent past power may increase significant lyand ultimately the pumping
and will be useful to designers implementing passive augmentation cost become high. Therefore, to achieve a desired heat transfer
techniques in heat exchange. Twisted tapes, wire coils, ribs, fins, rate in an existing heat exchanger at an economic pumping
dimples, etc., are the most commonly used passive heat transfer power, several techniques have been proposed in recent years
augmentation tools.
and are discussed under the classification section.
Key Words: Heat exchanger, twisted corrugated tape, twist
ratio, turbulence..

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Types of artificial roughness, corrugated or corrugated CFD Code Procedure : CFD codes are structured around the
channels: numerical algorithms that can tackle fluid flow problems. In
The roughness elements are classified as follows: order to provide easy access to their solving power all
commercial CFD packages include sophisticated user
a) According to arrangement of ribs: Depending on interfaces to input problem parameters and to examine the
whether one complete rib or ribs in pieces are placed on results. Hence all codes contain three main elements:
absorber plate, the ribs can be full (continuous) or broken
(discrete).  Pre-processor,
 Solver and
b) According to orientation of ribs: transverse, inclined and  Post-processor.
V- shaped. We briefly examine the function of each of these elements
within the context of a CFD code.
c) According to shape of cross section of ribs: square,
rectangular, circular, semi-Circular, trapezoidal, triangular. Pre-Processor

d) According to material of ribs: Aluminum, copper, brass Pre-processing consists of the input of a flow problem to a
etc. CFD program by means of an operator-friendly interface and
the subsequent transformation of this input into a form
e) According to geometry: Sand grains, ribs, dimples, suitable for use by the solver. The user activities at the pre-
expanded metal wire mesh, Compound rib groove processing stage involve
arrangement Corrugated or corrugated channels.
 Definition of the geometry of the region of interest:
f) According to method of attachment of ribs: Gluing, the computational domain.
casting, machining of roughness elements on heat transfer  Grid generation-the sub-division of the domain into a
surface. number of smaller, non overlapping sub-domains: a
grid (or mesh) of cells (or control volumes or
Research Opportunities: elements).
The aim of insert is to enhance heat transfer rate by reducing  Selection of the physical and chemical phenomena
the size and cost of heat exchanger but not with the increase in that need to be modeled.
pumping power. By referring the above literature it was  Definition of fluid properties.
observed that the objective can be achieved if one goes for
 Specification of appropriate boundary conditions at
passive techniques. After referring the results obtained from
cells which coincide with or touch the domain
the twisted tape inserts, they are offering less pressure drop
boundary.
than the other techniques mentioned in above literature. There
The solution to a flow problem (velocity, pressure,
exists a lot of work on twisted tape by various researchers by
temperature etc.) is defined at nodes inside each cell. The
varying various pitches by diameter ratios or by varying
accuracy of a CFD solution is governed by the number of cells
thickness to pitch ratio. The material used by them is normally
in the grid. In general, the larger the number of cells the better
Teflon which is a non metal also the material is solid in shape.
the solution accuracy. Both the accuracy of a solution and its
The inserts can be modified by giving new design as it can be
cost in terms of necessary computer hardware and calculation
made corrugated or corrugated; as if a material becomes
time are dependent on the fineness of the grid. Optimal
corrugated the turbulence may rise in the fluid flow. Also if it
meshes are often non-uniform: finer in areas where large
is given a twisted shape then due to nature of inserts an
variations occur from point to point and coarser in regions
extensive contact surface between solid and fluid surfaces are
with relatively little change. Efforts are under way to develop
generated. The extensive contact surface enhances the internal
CFD codes with a self adaptive meshing capability.
heat exchange between the phases and consequently results in
Ultimately such programs will automatically refine the grid in
an increased thermal diffusivity. A corrugated twisted tape
areas of rapid variations. A substantial amount of basic
insert is a swirl producing geometry where the secondary fluid
development work still needs to be done before these
motion is generated by the continuous change in direction of
techniques are robust enough to be incorporated into
the tangential vector to the bounding curve surface of the duct,
commercial CFD codes. At present it is still up to the skills of
which results in the local deflection of the bulk flow velocity
the CFD user to design a grid that is a suitable compromise
vector. Therefore a corrugated twisted tape insert may prove
between desired accuracy and solution cost.
to be beneficial by improving the heat transfer rate and by
reducing the pressure drop. .
Experimental work done on various inserts:
Numerical Simulation by the Solver: There are three
Computational Fluid Dynamics or CFD is the analysis of
systems involving fluid flow, heat transfer and associated distinct streams of numerical solution techniques: finite
phenomena such as chemical reactions by means of computer-
difference, finite element and spectral methods. In outline the
based simulation. The technique is very powerful and spans a
wide range of industrial and non-industrial application areas.

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numerical methods that form the basis of the solver perform throughout the entire computational domain. Again we
the following steps: replace the unknowns in the governing equation by the
truncated series. The constraint that leads to the algebraic
 Approximation of the unknown flow variables by
equations for the coefficients of the Fourier or Chebyshev
means of simple functions.
series is provided by a weighted residuals concept similar to
 Discretisation by substitution of the approximations
the finite element method or by making the approximate
into the governing flow equations and subsequent
function coincide with the exact solution at a number of grid
mathematical manipulations.
points.
 Solution of the algebraic equations.
The main differences between the three separate streams are The finite volume method: The finite volume method was
associated with the way in which the flow variables are originally developed as a special finite difference formulation.
approximated and with the discretisation processes. It is central to four of the five main commercially available
CFD codes: PFIOENICS, FLUENT, FLOW3D and STAR-
Finite difference methods: Finite difference methods
CD. The numerical algorithm consists of the following steps:
describe the unknown λ of the flow problem by means of
point samples at the node points of a grid of co-ordinate lines.  Formal integration of the governing equations of
Truncated Taylor series expansions are often used to generate fluid flow over all the (finite) control volumes of the
finite difference approximations of derivatives of λ in terms of solution domain.
point samples of λ at each grid point and its immediate  Discretisation involves the substitution of a variety of
neighbours. Those derivatives appearing in the governing finite-difference-type approximations for the terms in
equations are replaced by finite differences yielding an the integrated equation representing flow processes
algebraic equation for the values of λ at each grid point. such as convection, diffusion and sources. This
converts the integral equations into a system of
Finite Element Method: Finite element methods use simple
algebraic equations.
piecewise functions (e.g. linear or quadratic) valid on
 Solution of the algebraic equations by an iterative
elements to describe the local variations of unknown flow
method.
variables λ. The governing equation is precisely satisfied by
Post-Processing :
the exact solution λ. If the piecewise approximating functions As in pre-processing a huge amount of development work
for λ are substituted into the equation it will not hold exactly has recently taken place in the post-processing field. Owing to
and a residual is defined to measure the errors. Next the the increased popularity of engineering workstations, many of
residuals (and hence the errors) are minimised in some sense which have outstanding graphics capabilities, the leading CFD
by multiplying them by a set of weighting functions and packages are now equipped with versatile data visualization
integrating. As a result we obtain a set of algebraic equations tools. These include:
for the unknown coefficients of the approximating functions.
The theory of finite elements has been developed initially for  Domain geometry and grid display.

structural stress analysis.  Vector plots.

 Line and shaded contour plots.
Spectral Methods: Spectral methods approximate the
 2D and 3D surface plots.
unknowns by means of truncated Fourier series or series of
 Particle tracking.
Chebyshev polynomials. Unlike the finite difference or finite
 View manipulation (translation, rotation, scaling
element approach the approximations are not local but valid
etc.).
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 Colour postscript output. Experimental Set up :

More recently these facilities may also include animation for The apparatus consist of a blower unit fitted with the
dynamic result display and in addition to graphics all codes test pipe. The test section is surrounded by nichrome heater.
produce trusty alphanumeric output and have data export Six thermocouples are embedded on test section and two
facilities for further manipulation external to the code. As in thermocouples are placed in the air stream at the entrance and
many other branches of CAE the graphics output capabilities exit of test section to measure air temperatures. Test pipe is
of CFD codes have revolutionized the communication of ideas connected to the delivery side of the blower along with the
to the non-specialist. orifice to measure flow of air through the pipe. Input to the
heater is given through power unit and is measured by meters.
II. METHODOLOGY It is also noted that only a part of the total heat supplied is
1. Present experimental work: utilized in heating the air. A temperature indicator with clod
junction compensation is provided to measure the temperature
The experimental study on passive heat transfer augmentation
in the pipe wall in the test section. Air flow is measured with
using corrugated twisted tape inserts for varying twist ratio
the help of an orifice meter and the water manometer fitted on
and wave-width with aluminum and copper as a material was
the board. In addition to this, an inclined manometer is also
carried on in a single phase flow heat exchanger having the
used to measure pressure drop across test section. The valve at
specifications as listed below:-
the outlet of pipe is used to vary the flow rate of air. At inlet
of test section a tapping with valve is provided to measure
pressure drop.

Figure 1: Experimental set up for forced convection

Specifications of set up: Figure 2 : Schematic diagram of forced convection set

up
1 Inner diameter of pipe =(do) = 0.026 m.
2 Outer diameter of pipe =(di) = 0.03 m. T1 measures inlet air temp & is indicated by Digital
3 Length of test section = L =0.7m. Voltmeter (DV) on the front panel. The thermocouple no 8 is
4 Capacity of blower = 0.24h.p. used for measuring outlet air temperature. The thermocouples
5 Diameter of orifice (d) =0.016m. T2 to T7 are used to measure surface temperature of test
6 Range of Dimmer stat = 0 to 2 amp. 0-270V ac. section. The power control unit uses an isolating transformer
7 Temperature indicator =0 to 300 0C. (12 points) for stepping down mains voltage to 130 volts AC & get
8 U-tube manometer = Pressure tapings at start and end controlled DC output in the range 0-150 volts using
of the test pipe. 0-300 mm of water column unijunction transistor(UJT), pulse transformer &Silicon
9 Calibratedchromelalumel thermocouple(K-type- - Controlled Rectifier (SCR) circuit & capacitive filter. The
2700C to 1350 0C) heater power is necessarily DC. The voltage signals (V) for
10 Voltmeter = 0-200 V; ammeter 0-2 amp. measurement is obtained by means of a potential divider &
11 Nichrome wire (resistivity=1.5 x 10-6Ωm) heater current signal (I) is obtained by measuring the voltage drop
wound around test pipe. across a small resistance. This current is measured by means
of an ammeter on the front panel & for voltage measurement
test points are provided below the ammeter. The output can be
controlled by means of potentiometer. The ground is
internally connected.

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Experimental work carried out on inserts: Specifications of inserts :

The literature that has been discussed above deals i. Width of tape = 24mm.
with active as well as passive techniques used for heat transfer ii. Twist ratios, TR=8.33, 8.83,9.375, 9.79 & 10.42.
augmentation, but maximum researchers have used passive iii. Length of insert, L = 700 mm
technique as it doesn‟t require any external agency for heat iv. Wave-width, WW = 13,16 & 24 mm
enhancement, hence it is advantageous over the active v. Thickness of inserts, t = 1mm
techniques thus giving ample of room for experimental
studies.
The researchers have used twisted tape with varying Table 3.1: Detailed specifications of corrugated twisted
pitches where they are getting higher friction factor of about
30% to 50 % hence an attempt have to be made to reduce this inserts
friction factor. This attempt can be done by changing the Wave- Twist
shape of insert and also by using various materials. The inserts SN Pitch Width Material Description
width Ratio
used for the experiment are corrugated twisted tape with 1 225 24 13 Aluminum Same pitch
different wave-widths and pitches as there is no work done on 2 225 24 16 Aluminum varying 9.375
such type of insert. 3 225 24 24 Aluminum wavelength
The work includes the following:
1. Determination of friction factor and Nusselt number
for smooth tube and for various corrugated twisted Fabrication Procedure:
tape inserts with varying pitches and wave-widths. 1. Take aluminum or copper sheet of thickness 1mm.
2. The results of Nusselt number, friction factor, 2. Cut them on hydraulic press in desired width & length
Performance evaluation criteria for all the aluminum (24mm x 750 mm) keeping 50 mm allowance for
corrugated twisted tape inserts are plotted on the compensating the length after twisting.
graph and compared with the values for the smooth 3. The cut tapes are then given corrugations on die for
tube. required wave-widths, on both sides.
3. Similarly all the above parameters for copper 4. After corrugations drill two holes each on one end on
corrugated twisted tape inserts are plotted on the tapes.
graph and compared with the values for the smooth 5. Hold the tape between headstock & tail stock on lathe
tube. machine using drilled holes.
4. To observe the effect of varying twists and wave- 6. Rotate the headstock (chuck) end & at the same time
widths, another set of graphs are plotted for copper move tailstock by required amount towards the
and aluminum inserts. headstock till we get desired shape &pitch.
5. Two materials are chosen for the experiment hence The actual photographs of twisted tape for varying wave-
to find an optimum value in terms of the above widths but same twist ratio are shown below from Fig.4 from
mentioned parameters, combined graphs are plotted (a) to (c).
for copper & aluminum to find an optimum out of
the two materials that can be used for this
experimental set up.
6. Comparing results of corrugated twisted tape with
plane tape.
7. The use of CFD programming to model the
experimental results of heat transfer in an circular Figure 4 (a) : Aluminium corrugated insert TR-9.375, WW-
tube heat exchanger equipped with the corrugated 13 mm
twisted tape inserts.

Figure 5(b) : Aluminium corrugated insertTR-9.375, WW-16

mm

Figure 3: Terminologies of corrugated twisted tape

Figure 6 (c): Aluminum corrugated insert TR-9.375, WW-24

mm

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Observation Table : Sample observation and result table of copper insert with
TR-8.83, WW-16 mm
Table 1: Observation table of without insert
SN Parameters Value Table 3 : Observation table of copper insert
T1 32.7
T2 42.6 Sr No. Parameters Value
T3 48.9
Temperatures T4 52.6 T1 31.9
o
C T5 56.8 T2 40.8
T6 57.6 T3 45.8
T7 54.3
T4 48.1
T8 40.3 Temperatures oC
T5 50.7
Manometer
hw 41
Difference T6 50.9
Inclined T7 49.2
Manometer hf 3.25
Reading T8 40.7
Manometer
As per the observation table shown in methodology hw 41
experimentation was carried out and temperature and
Difference
manometer difference values obtained are put in the table Inclined
4.2.1. This manometer difference indicates change in mass Manometer hf 5
flow rate operated by the valve next to the test section, this Reading
increase in manometric head indicates increase in mass flow
rate and this causes increase in Reynolds number. As
Reynolds number increases the friction factor has to reduce. Table 4 : Showing mass flow rate, friction factor and
Nusselt number of copper insert with TR-8.83, WW-16
Table 2 : showing mass flow rate, friction factor and mm
Nusselt number of without insert M
Re F Nu
m (kg/s)
Re fexpt Nu
(kg/s)
9466.089 0.003737 0.067640951 51.11746

10963.77 0.004328 0.0327 36.34 8231.131 0.003249 0.07156849 46.0319

As explained above that as Reynolds number increases then 7242.43 0.002859 0.075109639 42.80081
friction has to reduce, so by observing the table 4.2.2 then at
lower Reynolds number the friction factor is high however as 5913.419 0.002334 0.095331465 38.72239
the Reynolds number increases the friction factor drops as
compared to the initial value. The Nusselt number increases
with the increase in Reynolds number which indicates that 4181.419 0.001651 0.155996943 30.95081
heat transfer enhancement takes place at higher Reynolds
An sample observation table is shown above for the
number.
insert of copper with TR-8.83 & WW-16 mm and it is
observed that the Reynolds number increases with the
decrease in friction, so at lower Reynolds number the friction
factor is high however as the Reynolds number increases the
friction factor drops as compared to the initial value. The
Nusselt number increases with the increase in Reynolds
number which indicates that heat transfer enhancement takes
place at higher Reynolds number. There is another parameter
PEC which is defined above and it is observed that the
performance evaluation criteria decrease with the increase in
Reynolds number hence there is increase in heat enhancement.

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Computational Mesh & Numerical Approach for Analysis of Heat Pipe. The entire domain consists of majorly two different
Heat Pipe :-
The geometry is created in a commercial CAD tool and parts i.e. Heat pipe and twisted tape.

meshing is done in ANSYS ICEM CFD. ANSYS ICEM CFD

provides advanced geometry acquisition, mesh generation,
mesh optimization, and post-processing tools to meet the
requirement for integrated mesh generation and post
processing tools for today‟s sophisticated analyses.
Maintaining a close relationship with the geometry during
mesh generation and post-processing, ANSYS ICEM CFD is
used especially in engineering applications such as
computational fluid dynamics and structural analysis. ANSYS
ICEM CFD‟s mesh generation tools offer the capability to
parametrically create meshes from geometry in numerous
formats:
Fig :effect of pressure drop on twisted tape

 Multiblock structured
 Unstructured hexahedral
 Unstructured tetrahedral
 Cartesian with H-grid refinement
 Hybrid meshes comprising hexahedral, tetrahedral,
pyramidal and/or prismatic elements
 Quadrilateral and triangular surface meshes

ANSYS ICEM CFD provides a direct link between geometry

and analysis. In ANSYS ICEM CFD, geometry can be input
from just about any format, whether from a commercial CAD
design package, 3rd party universal database, scan data or
point data. Beginning with a robust geometry module which Fig.: effect of Velocity contour on twisted tape

supports the creation and modification of surfaces, curves and

points, ANSYS ICEM CFD‟s open geometry database offers
the flexibility to combine geometric information in various
formats for mesh generation. The resulting structured or
unstructured meshes, topology, inter-domain connectivity and
boundary conditions are then stored in a database where they
can easily be translated to input files formatted for a particular
solver. In the present study unstructured tetrahedral mesh is
used for the whole geometry with prismatic elements along
the wall of the pipe so as to capture the boundary layer
correctly. The Fig. shows the complete meshed domain of the

Fig : velocity streamline

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5) The empirical correlations will be developed in the

proposed study which will predict the Nusselt number and
friction factor. The maximum deviations between the
predicted results and experimental results for Nusselt number
and friction factor will be checked.

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