Concentric Tube Heat Exchanger Benchmark Dataset: Experimental Measurements, CFD Configuration, and PINN Surrogate

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Main Authors: DA COSTA, MAYSE, COSTA, ÂNGELO, LIRA, JOSÉ CLAUDINO
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author DA COSTA, MAYSE
COSTA, ÂNGELO
LIRA, JOSÉ CLAUDINO
author_facet DA COSTA, MAYSE
COSTA, ÂNGELO
LIRA, JOSÉ CLAUDINO
contents <p>This dataset accompanies the manuscript "PINN surrogate for concentric tube heat exchangers: experimental validation and operational envelope mapping" submitted to the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (2026).</p> <p>It provides synchronized experimental measurements, CFD-derived results, and Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) predictions for a laboratory-scale concentric tube heat exchanger (TecQuipment TD360a) operating with water in both circuits. Eight experimental cases were measured, combining four cold-side mass flow rates (0.050, 0.033, 0.017, 0.008 kg/s) with parallel and counterflow configurations, while keeping the hot-side flow rate constant at 0.050 kg/s.</p> <p>The dataset includes:<br>- Experimental temperature and flow-rate measurements with calibrated instrumentation<br>- Moffat-propagated uncertainties for heat-transfer rates and effectiveness<br>- Energy balance analysis for the eight cases<br>- CFD validation results from ANSYS CFX with SST k-omega turbulence model and mesh-independence study<br>- Trained PINN surrogate (Jupyter notebook) with full reproducibility through fixed random seeds<br>- PINN predictions for the eight experimental cases<br>- Comparative analysis tables (Exp, CFD, PINN)</p> <p>The PINN surrogate, with architecture [5, 32, 32, 2] and 1,314 parameters, was trained against epsilon-NTU theoretical targets with energy-conservation and effectiveness-consistency constraints. It reproduces experimental outlet temperatures with mean absolute percentage errors of 0.98% (hot stream) and 3.00% (cold stream), and reduces computational cost by approximately one order of magnitude relative to CFD.</p> <p>The dataset is intended to support reproducibility of the published results and to serve as a reference benchmark for subsequent methodological studies on surrogate modeling of concentric tube heat exchangers.</p> <p> </p>
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spellingShingle Concentric Tube Heat Exchanger Benchmark Dataset: Experimental Measurements, CFD Configuration, and PINN Surrogate
DA COSTA, MAYSE
COSTA, ÂNGELO
LIRA, JOSÉ CLAUDINO
Physics-informed neural networks
Concentric tube heat exchanger
Experimental validation
Computational fluid dynamics
CFD benchmarking
Thermal effectiveness
Surrogate model
Heat transfer
Uncertainty propagation
Moffat method
Open dataset
<p>This dataset accompanies the manuscript "PINN surrogate for concentric tube heat exchangers: experimental validation and operational envelope mapping" submitted to the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (2026).</p> <p>It provides synchronized experimental measurements, CFD-derived results, and Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) predictions for a laboratory-scale concentric tube heat exchanger (TecQuipment TD360a) operating with water in both circuits. Eight experimental cases were measured, combining four cold-side mass flow rates (0.050, 0.033, 0.017, 0.008 kg/s) with parallel and counterflow configurations, while keeping the hot-side flow rate constant at 0.050 kg/s.</p> <p>The dataset includes:<br>- Experimental temperature and flow-rate measurements with calibrated instrumentation<br>- Moffat-propagated uncertainties for heat-transfer rates and effectiveness<br>- Energy balance analysis for the eight cases<br>- CFD validation results from ANSYS CFX with SST k-omega turbulence model and mesh-independence study<br>- Trained PINN surrogate (Jupyter notebook) with full reproducibility through fixed random seeds<br>- PINN predictions for the eight experimental cases<br>- Comparative analysis tables (Exp, CFD, PINN)</p> <p>The PINN surrogate, with architecture [5, 32, 32, 2] and 1,314 parameters, was trained against epsilon-NTU theoretical targets with energy-conservation and effectiveness-consistency constraints. It reproduces experimental outlet temperatures with mean absolute percentage errors of 0.98% (hot stream) and 3.00% (cold stream), and reduces computational cost by approximately one order of magnitude relative to CFD.</p> <p>The dataset is intended to support reproducibility of the published results and to serve as a reference benchmark for subsequent methodological studies on surrogate modeling of concentric tube heat exchangers.</p> <p> </p>
title Concentric Tube Heat Exchanger Benchmark Dataset: Experimental Measurements, CFD Configuration, and PINN Surrogate
topic Physics-informed neural networks
Concentric tube heat exchanger
Experimental validation
Computational fluid dynamics
CFD benchmarking
Thermal effectiveness
Surrogate model
Heat transfer
Uncertainty propagation
Moffat method
Open dataset
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20112557