Operation of Counterflow Regenerators (Developments in Heat Transfer Vol 4)

Drawing on almost two decades of research, this book presents a detailed and rigorous analysis of the transient and steady periodic operation of regenerative heat exchangers. The model used is based on Nusselt's equations describing the transfer of heat between the flowing gases and the regenerator matrix.

The book features an exact analytical solution of the regenerator problem for general case, algorithms for the temperature fields evaluation in both transient and steady operation, and a procedure for estimating the duration of transient process when a regenerator is disturbed from its cyclic equilibrium.