Article,
General solution of the equations of parallelflow multichannel heat exchangers
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7 (8): 901 - 919 (1964)
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(64)90146-2
Abstract
The paper presents general solution of the systems of differential equations describing the distribution of temperature and temperature difference of fluids in exchanger channels. These equations have been derived in another paper 13. It is found that for n channels the number of equations is at most n or n — 1. Solutions are given in a form enabling introduction of the boundary conditions. These solutions are obtained in the general case of channels forming a bundle and exchanging heat according to the principle of the maximum possible number of heat exchanges between channels and in most common practical cases in which the number of heat exchanges is reduced.
