Thermal Performance Reduction in Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers Due to Nonuniform Flow and Temperature Distributions

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 82-92

  Beiler, M G ^a   Kroger D G ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TURBULENCE;

MULTIROW TUBE BUNDLES; NONUNIFORM FLOW; THERMAL PERFORMANCE REDUCTION; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0029779109     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457639608939867     Document Type: Article

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