Abstract

The main aim of the study is to get the temperature and backpressure of a car engine exhaust gas which goes through the EGR-cooler. So the internal fluid flow and heat transfer process of the EGR cooler must be studied more clearly, numerical simulations are applied. Based on the strong coupling method, gas-solid-liquid three phases coupling model of the typical heat transfer unit is established. According to the coupling result, the heat flux of the tube’s outside surface is gained and then mapped to the inner surface of the cooler’s water. The water model is set up based on the separation coupling method. According to the analysis of the calculation, the detailed pressure and temperature distribution of the gas, water and solid are obtained. From the distribution cloud, we know the changes of the parameters along the fluid flows streamline.

Keywords:

CFD, EGR-cooler, gas-the solid-liquid three phases coupling, heat transfer process,

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