Heat Transfer Problem You had been assigned, at General Motors as a design engineer, to design a...

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Heat Transfer Problem

You had been assigned, at General Motors as a design engineer,to design a radiator (Heat Exchanger) for a new model car . It isnecessary that the heat exchanger will be compact enough to fitwithin a space of 2 feet by 3 feet available in front of the car.IF the temperature of the incoming engine coolant is 150 degreeCentigrade and the outside temperature of air is about 38 C:

What type of heat exchanger could reduce the temperature of thecoolant to 40 C? find the surface area and number of the tubesnecessary to do so. Select the Coolant properties as water. Thecoolant is circulated by a water pump at a rate of 0.5 kg/sec. Showall your work and justify the selection you made. Make all otherengineering assumptions necessary for this design.

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