Modelling of steam surface condenser using finite element methods

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 909-921

  Roy Chaudhuri, A ^a   Seetharamu, K N ^a   Sundararajan, T ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Heat exchangers; Modelling; Steam; Surface condensers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EULERIAN VELOCITY CORRECTION ALGORITHM;

STEAM CONDENSERS;

CONDENSER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT EXCHANGER; MODELING; STEAM;

EID: 0031430101     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0887(199712)13:12<909::aid-cnm87>3.0.co;2-i     Document Type: Article

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