Numerical prediction of laminar flow and forced convective heat transfer in a helical square duct with a finite pitch

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 3101-3115

  Bolinder, C Jonas ^a   Sundén, Bengt ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; DUCTS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LAMINAR FLOW; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; TORSIONAL STRESS; VORTEX FLOW;

DEAN NUMBER; FORCED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; HELICAL SQUARE DUCT; PITCH; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; TOROIDALLY CURVED DUCT; TWO VORTEX SECONDARY FLOW;

HEAT TRANSFER;

DUCTS; HEAT TRANSFER; HELICAL SQUARE; LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 0030250959     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(96)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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