devices.

The necessity of increased heat transfer surface area has resulted in

the development of compact heat exchangers, which are widely used in
aerospace industries. The improvements in the performance of the heat
exchangers have attracted many researchers for a long time as they are of great
technical, economical and not the least, ecological importance. Compact heat
exchangers are characterized by a large heat transfer surface area per unit
volume of the exchanger. The compact heat exchangers can be of gas to gas,
gas to liquid or liquid to liquid. They are used in cryogenics, electronics, energy
recovery and aerospace industry. The most common compact heat exchangers
are having different types of plate fins. The most common fin configurations are