WANG Dan, LI Jiagang, PAN Kang, WANG Ke, LIU Zunchao
To investigate the effects of structural parameters and inlet Reynolds number on the performance of the asymmetric airfoil fin printed circuit heat exchanger(PCHE),a three-dimensional numerical simulation based on computational fluid dynamics(CFD) was carried out, and the results were fitted to obtain the empirical criterion formulas of Nusselt number(Nu) with deviation less than 10% and friction factor(f) with deviation less than 13%.Then, a one-dimensional analysis method was used to calculate the volume, heat transfer rate, and total pressure drop of the full-size PCHE(without simplifying the heat exchanger model).Finally, a multi-objective optimization design using the NSGA-Ⅱ algorithm was carried out by using the Q/V and Δp as the objective functions, and using the transverse spacing, fin thickness, and inlet Reynolds number as the design variables.The research results show that, compared with the transverse fin spacing of 4.8 mm, when the transverse spacing equals to 3 mm, the values of Q/V can be increased by up to 88.7%,and the values of Δp can be increased by up to 178.6%.Compared with the fin thickness of 0.6 mm, when the fin thickness equals to 2.4 mm, the values of Q/V can be increased by up to 76.5%,and the values of Δp can be increased by up to 93.9%.The NACA8540 airfoil fin PCHE has the best performance compared with the other asymmetric airfoil fin PCHE with different structural parameters.The conclusions obtained herein have certain guiding significance for the application of PCHE with asymmetric airfoil fins.