The present study reports an experimental analysis on heat transfer, friction factor and thermal performance characteristics of turbulent flow (7500 ≤ Re ≥ 13,000) in heat exchanger tubes with twisted tape as swirl generators under constant wall heat flux condition. The experiments were carried out for twisted tape inserts at five different width ratios (W/D) of 0.35, 0.44, 0.53, 0.62 and 0.71 at constant twist ratio (H/D) of 2.5. The experimental results show that Nusselt number increases with increasing Reynolds number and increasing width ratio (W/D) of the swirl generators. Also the friction factor decreases with increasing Reynolds number and decreasing width ratio. Nusselt number increased in ranges of 6.04% to 17.26% compared to the results of the tube without twisted tape (the plain tube), depending on the operating conditions. At the same pumping power, the use of twisted tape inserts results in thermal performance factor up to 1.17 times of those of the plain tube. In addition, the correlations that developed from the present experimental data for Nusselt number.
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