Transient response of a serpentine finned-tube cross-flow heat exchanger to a step change in inlet temperature

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 51-60

  Abdallah, S ^a   Rooke, S ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BESSEL FUNCTION; INLET TEMPERATURE; SERPENTINE FINNED TUBE CROSS FLOW HEAT EXCHANGERS; TRANSIENT RESPONSE;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0031187686     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457639708939901     Document Type: Article

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