Reduce guess for initial temperature difference across wall #4033
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From 10 K to 1 K to be specific.
The reason is two-fold:
Basically it should be the initial guess for temperature difference across the wall of the heat-exchanger.
Obviously the size depend on the temperature difference between the pipes and the relatives heat capacity of the medium compared to the heat-exchanger walls, so I think that giving an order of magnitude is fine - as long as it is the right order of magnitude.
If you simulate it in Dymola you get this plot for those temperature differences:
So they start 0.4 K apart, not 10 K, and the maximum difference is 2.5 K (the temperature in the mediums are 32 degC and 82 degC at that point - remember that the pipes go in different directions).