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Energy and the Environment (2006) 91-101 91 A NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT TRANSFER IN A WAVY FIN-AND-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER 1) 1) 1) Igor Wolf , Bernard Franković , Ivan Viličić , Romuald Jurkowski 2), André Bailly 2) 1) Faculty of Engineering University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, HR-51 000 Rijeka, Croatia E-mail: igorw@riteh.hr, bernardf@riteh.hr, ivilicic@riteh.hr 2) Research and Development Center, CIAT, Avenue J. Falconnier, F-01350 Culoz, France E-mail: r.jurkowski@ciat.fr, a.bailly@ciat.fr Abstract: A physical process of heat transfer on the air-side of a wavy fin-and-tube heat exchanger has been analysed numerically and experimentally in this paper. The heat exchanger studied has three rows of circular tubes in a staggered arrangement. A three- dimensional steady-state fluid flow and heat transfer mathematical model has been solved using CFD software based on control volume numerical method. The numerical results have been compared to experimental measurements and Wang’s empirical correlations. Compatibility between the results has been found. Key words: Heat exchanger, finned tube, numerical analysis, experiment 1. INTRODUCTION The contribution of air-conditioning systems in energy consumption has been growing very fast in recent years. The increased usage of air conditioners has resulted in an increase in the amount of electricity consumption, especially in summer periods, which has caused instabili