DISPLAY HEAT-EXCHANGER SIMULATIONS BY MEANS OF PHOENICS These examples make extensive use of the "neighbour" technique, whereby the use of a special patch name activates special calls in GROUND which are to be included in GREX. It will be useful to extend the series further, so as to illustrate how two-phase flow can be handled on tube and shell sides of a boiler, and to show also how cooling-tower problems can be handled with the aid of this technique. ENDDIS The cases dealt with so far are:- 1. Steady counterflow. 2. Transient counterflow. 3. Transient counterflow with allowance for the heat capacity of the metal. 4. Steady crossflow. 5. Transient crossflow. 6. Transient crossflow. with allowance for the heat capacity of the metal. 7. Steady baffled-shell-and-tube. 8. Transient baffled-shell-and-tube. 9. Transient baffled-shell-and-tube with allowance for the heat capacity of the metal. 10. Steady two-phase baffled-shell-and-tube. 11. Transient two-phase baffled-shell-and-tube. 12. Transient two-phase baffled-shell-and-tube with allowance for the heat capacity of the metal. GROUP 1. Run title TEXT(Steady Counterflow Heat Exchanger TITLE User-defined variables T1IN = inlet temperature of shell fluid T2IN = inlet temperature of tube fluid FLO1 = mass-flow rate of shell fluid FLO2 = mass-flow rate of tube fluid COEF1 = heat-transfer coefficient on shell-fluid side COEF2 = heat-transfer coefficient on tube-fluid side COEF12 = overall heat-transfer coefficient. Note that, for the sake of uniformity of nomenclature, the first and second fluids are referred to as "shell" and "tube" fluids respectively. REAL(T1IN,T2IN,FLO1,FLO2,COEF1,COEF2,COEF12) T1IN=1.0;T2IN=0.0;FLO1=0.1;FLO2=0.1;COEF1=0.1;COEF2=0.1 COEF12=1.0/(1.0/COEF1+1.0/COEF2) GROUP 3. X-direction grid specification The heat exchanger is a rectangular box, 1m high, 1m wide and 10m long. GRDPWR(X,20,10.0,1.0) GROUP 7. Variables stored, solved , named SOLVE(H1,H2) NAME(H1)=1STH;NAME(H2)=2NDH The fact that the shell-side fluid does not have access to the whole of the shell requires the specification of "area porosities". These are set to 0.5 in GROUP 11 below. STORE(EPOR) GROUP 8. Terms (in differential equations) & devices The built-in source, convection and diffusion terms are cut out for all variables. TERMS(1STH,N,N,N,P,P,P);TERMS(2NDH,N,N,N,P,P,P) GROUP 11. Initialization of variable or porosity fields FIINIT(1STH)=T1IN;FIINIT(2NDH)=T2IN FIINIT(EPOR)=0.5 GROUP 13. Boundary conditions and special sources West boundary; shell fluid inlet ; 1 cell in west wall PATCH(INLET1,CELL,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1000) COVAL(INLET1,1STH,FLO1,T1IN) East boundary; tube fluid inlet; 1 cell in east wall PATCH(INLET2,CELL,NX,NX,1,1,1,1,1,1000) COVAL(INLET2,2NDH,FLO2,T2IN) Note how the giving of special names to patches, beginning NE (for neighbour), coupled with LOCNE in the "value" location, produces sources which simulate along- the-tube convection fluid-to-metal heat transfer etc, by activating special calls to GROUND, the relevant extract from which appears in an appendix to this file. Flow of shell fluid PATCH(NEW1,CELL,2,NX,1,1,1,1,1,1000) COVAL(NEW1,1STH,FLO1,LOCNE) Flow of tube fluid PATCH(NEE1,CELL,1,NX-1,1,1,1,1,1,1000) COVAL(NEE1,2NDH,FLO2,LOCNE) Heat-exchange with tube fluid, throughout the exchanger. PATCH(NEPLUS,VOLUME,1,NX,1,NY,1,NZ,1,1000) COVAL(NEPLUS,1STH,COEF12,LOCNE) Heat-exchange with shell fluid, throughout the exchanger. PATCH(NEMINUS,VOLUME,1,NX,1,NY,1,NZ,1,1000) COVAL(NEMINUS,2NDH,COEF12,LOCNE) GROUP 15. Termination of sweeps RESREF(1STH)=1.E-6*FLO1;RESREF(2NDH)=RESREF(1STH) LSWEEP=50 GROUP 21. Print-out of variables Print-out of porosities is suppressed. OUTPUT(EPOR,N,N,N,N,N,N) OUTPUT(1STH,N,N,Y,Y,Y,Y);OUTPUT(2NDH,N,N,Y,Y,Y,Y) GROUP 22. Spot-value print-out IXMON=NX/2;TSTSWP=LSWEEP/10 GROUP 23. Field print-out and plot control NXPRIN=NX/5;IPLTL=LSWEEP;IPROF=1;ORSIZ=0.4;XZPR=T;NPLT=1 IPROF=3 PATCH(PROFILES,PROFIL,1,NX,1,1,1,1,1,1000) PLOT(PROFILES,1STH,T2IN,T1IN);PLOT(PROFILES,2NDH,T2IN,T1IN) GROUP 24. Dumps for restarts