Published Paper Details:

Heat transfer from one fluid to another is important application in engineering science, various type of heat exchanger devices were developed by engineers from previous decades. Research on these devices continues in present era to improve thermal performance. Various shapes are used by engineers to improve thermal performance. Main common shapes are like simple straight heat exchanger, curved shape shell heat exchanger, twisted shape shell exchanger, custom shape heat exchanger. Simple shell and tube heat exchanger was use to validate the experimental results with CFD results. Experimental validation proves that CFD is effective tool for thermal performance investigation. After experimental validation, main research work was focused on effect of latent heat on thermal performance improvement of simple shell and tube heat exchanger using PCM materials in it. Co-relation equations are developed for both shapes of response conditions with linear fitting tool available in MINITAB coding software. Proper instrumentation and calibration was take care in this study. CFD simulation was carried out on ANSYS FLUENT software