Porous-filled helical double-pipe heat exchanger under asymmetric heat flux

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A helical double-pipe heat exchanger filled with a porous material under asymmetric heat flux is studied analytically. Momentum and energy equations are transformed to the Germano’s coordinate and then expressions representing the velocity and temperature fields are obtained based on the powers of dimensionless curvature using perturbation analysis. To be more insightful, contours of velocity and temperature fields are presented. Results reveal an asymmetric axial velocity profile arising from the curved geometry. The Nusselt number increases with respect to the dimensionless curvature increment as well as the inner to outer radius ratio increase.

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