New effective Nusselt-Reynolds correlations for food-cooling applications

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-67

  Dincer, Ibrahim ^a,b  

^a MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; COOLING; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL DIFFUSION; WATER;

CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUSSELT-REYNOLDS CORRELATIONS;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 0030817477     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0260-8774(96)00004-0     Document Type: Article

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