Cfd prediction of forced draft counter-flow cooling tower performance

Abstract EN

Numerical and experimental studies were conducted for open type forced draft water cooling tower.

The numerical part includes a three dimensional computational solution of air and water simultaneous equations which represents the fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer.

Finite volume method with staggered grid and ke-turbulent model was used.

Experimentally, mechanical forced draft counter-flow cooling tower was used to validate the numerical results.

The agreement seems acceptable between the numerical and experimental results.