Simulation and Experimental Study on Flow and Heat Transfer of Ship Central Cooling System

The centralized cooling system of a certain type of oil ship is a large-scale complex fluid network system. Fluid system simulation software (FLOWMASTER) was used to establish simulation model for steady operating conditions. The design of central cooling system was validated reasonably by simulation in steady-state condition. In this paper, the flow and heat transfer experiment was carried out. The experimental results were in good agreement with the simulation results, which suggested that using FLOWMASTER to validate the heat transfer performance of fluid system is reliable.