Optimal heating and cooling strategies for heat exchanger design
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 71 (1) , 76-79
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.350649
Abstract
The optimal heating or cooling strategy that minimizes entropy production is derived for a simple class of common heat transfer processes that are constrained to proceed in a fixed, finite time. The empirical wisdom embodied in conventional single‐pass counterflow heat exchanger design is examined in light of this solution. For judiciously selected system parameters, the counterflow heat exchanger can yield the optimal solution.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Minimum entropy production and the optimization of heat enginesPhysical Review A, 1980