Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli-620 015, Tamil Nadu, India.
Computational heat transfer flow modeling is one of the great challenges in the classical sciences. As with most problems in Engineering, the interest in the heat transfer augmentation is due to its extreme importance in various industrial applications. CFD simulation for the heat transfer augmentation in a circular tube fitted with; Right-left helical tape inserts with 100 mm spacer in laminar flow conditions has been explained in this paper using Fluent version 6.2.16. The data obtained by simulation are matching with the literature value for plain tube with the discrepancy of less than ± 5%. for Nusselt number and friction factor.
Heat transfer augmentation, Right-left helical twist insert with spacer, Twist ratio, CFD simulation, Fluent
