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

当进入装置的流体流动分布不均匀时，会对换热装置的性能产生不利影响。本文提出的重点是一种预测换热器进口歧管形状的数值实现方案，以减轻流动不均匀性。该方案的基础是求解无粘流动控制方程的边界积分方程法。数值方案的预测将进行实验验证。为此，将使用激光多普勒测速仪测量流体速度。

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.