Extreme performance of heat exchangers of various hydrodynamic models of flows

Abstract

The problem of minimization of entropy production is considered for one-pass heat exchangers of various types of description of hydrodynamic characteristics of the flows. Two models of the flows are considered, namely models of ideal mixing and ideal exclusion. The solution of the problem at issue allows one to construct a measure of thermodynamic perfectness of the heat exchanger taking into account the irreversibility of the heat exchange process.