A study on the optimal arrangement of tube bundle for the performance enhancement of a steam turbine surface condenser

A porous medium model was used for numerical and experimental investigations of a system that includes a tube bundle inside a steam turbine surface condenser. A condensation model was developed to predict the condenser performance using user-defined functions (UDFs) in the commercial computational fluid dynamics software FLUENT. The shell-side pressure drop around the tube bundle is an important indicator for the condenser performance and can be...