BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV1I7047,
     title={OPTIMIZATION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR USING CFD - A REVIEW},
     author={Hardikkumar B. Patel and Mr. Deepu Dinesan},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={1},
     number={7},
     pages={123--126},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV1I7047.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

The thermal performance of an automotive radiator plays an important role in the performance of an automobile's cooling system and all other associated systems. For a number of years, this component has suffered from little attention with very little changing in its manufacturing cost, operation and geometry. As opposed to the old tubular heat exchangers currently form the backbone of today's process industry with their advanced performance reading levels tubular heat exchangers can only dream of. This review focuses on the various research papers regarding CFD analysis to improve automobile radiator efficiency. The aim of this paper is study about the effect Various parameters like Shape of radiator core, direction flow of working fluid, frontal area of radiator, Space between fins, space between tube, fin & tube size, coolant mass flow rate, material of fins, pitch of tube, velocity of fluid, air inlet temperature are kept in mind to improve automobile radiator efficiency and find optimized geometry from above parametric analysis.Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) programme were directed comparing the heat transfer & pressure drop of heat exchanger with different parameters for optimum performance. CFD results have high correlation level with the actual experimental results. Various results suggest that CFD have been proved very effective in reducing concept-to-production time and cost.

Automobile Radiator, Performance parameters, CFD analysis, optimization