Semi-analytical solution of thermal energy storage system with conjugate laminar forced convection

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 717-724

  Zhang, Yuwen ^a   Faghri, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY STORAGE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRANDTL NUMBER; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ANALYTICAL METHOD; INTEGRAL APPROXIMATE METHOD; KIRCHOFF TEMPERATURE; LAMINAR FORCED CONVECTION; PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; STANTON NUMBER; STEFAN NUMBER; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM; TURBULENT FORCED CONVECTION;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0030104073     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(95)00172-7     Document Type: Article

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