Procedure for Calculating Circuits in the Modeling of Flow in fin-and-tube Heat Exchangers
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circuits, heat exchangers, finned tubes, graphs, modeling, simulation
Abstract
This paper presents a general method for simulating the flow behavior in the fin-and-tube heat exchangers with high flexibility in handling the information. This procedure is based on the use of Object-Oriented Programming and specifically using C++, this because of all the advantages of this type of programming. Data entry is carried out by files, so that third-party programs can generate configuration and permit calculation in parametric form. The results for the analysis are presented in three different formats: comma separated value (CSV), structured plain text and self-documenting (XML) and a graphical display of results (VTK).
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