Engineering Initiation Award: Inverse Design of Flow Headers for Heat Exchangers.

热交换设备的性能受到负面影响 当进入装置的流体流被分配时 不均匀的。 这一建议的主旨是一个数字 预测进气道形状的实施方案 减轻流动的热交换器的歧管 非均匀性 方案的基础是边界- 积分方程法求解控制方程 无粘流 数值方案的预测将是 经过实验验证。 为此目的， 流体速度的测量将使用激光 多普勒测速仪。

The performance of heat exchange devices is negatively affected when the fluid flow entering the device is distributed nonuniformly. The thrust of this proposal is a numerically implemented scheme for predicting the shapes of the inlet manifold of heat exchangers which alleviate the flow nonuniformities. The basis of the scheme is the boundary- integral-equation method of solving the governing equations for inviscid flow. The predictions of the numerical scheme will be subjected to experimental verification. For this purpose, measurements of the fluid velocity will be made using a laser Dopler velocimeter.