Laminar forced convection in the entrance region of helical pipes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 3293-3304

  Lin, C X ^a   Zhang, P ^a   Ebadian, M A ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; INTAKE SYSTEMS; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY;

CONTROL VOLUME FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; CURVATURE RATIO; PITCH;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; PIPEFLOW;

EID: 0031239507     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(96)00381-X     Document Type: Article

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