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3. Tube bundles in a uid cross ow are a canonical heat exchanger conguration used for industrial purposes such as steam generation. Consider air at 3.5 MPa and 38 C owing across a tube bank consisting of 400 tubes of 1.25 cm OD arranged in a staggered manner 20 rows high; SL = 3.75 cm and ST = 2.5 cm. The incoming ow velocity is 9 m/s and the tube wall temperatures are maintained at a constant 20 C by a condensing vapor on the inside of the tubes. The length of the tubes is 1.5 m. Estimate the exit air temperature as it leaves the tube bank. Use Eq.(1), which can be found in the text and evaluate the properties at the free stream conditions, except for Prs . N uD =
0.36 C1 Rem D,max P r
Pr P rs
0.25
(1)
Thermophysical Properties
Since the book has limited thermophysical data for certain substances, the ones needed for this assignment are provided below: