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A combined experimental and numerical analysis was performed to accurately evaluate the effect of longitudinal heat conduction along an aluminium test section on the local heat transfer coefficient (HTC) experimental determination. The test section contains a rectangular channel with fins typical of compact heat exchangers. The hydraulic diameter of the channel is around 2 mm. The fluid stream is heated by flat electrical resistances clamped to the outer walls of the test section. The test section contains four zones with different fin pads each, in order to be able to generate data for several geometries at the same time at exactly the same mass flow rate. It was found that longitudinal conduction can lead to a quite uneven distribution of the heat flux to the fluid at the beginning and end of each zone of the test section. Three phenomena were found to be the cause for the observed uneven heat distribution, i.e. the longitudinal gradient of temperature along the wall induced by the fluid temperature rise, the presence of heated and non-heated zones, and the stepwise non-uniformity of the HTC along the test section induced where the fin pad changes. The study has shown that the elementary data reduction methodology, assuming that the surface power density generated by the electrical resistance and the heat flux density reaching the fluid are equal and uniform along the channel, is too far from the reality at the beginning and end of each zone of the test section, especially at low mass flow rates. |
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