Some physical insights into a two-row finned-tube heat transfer

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-46

  Tsai, S F ^a   Sheu, Tony W H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); GASES; LAMINAR FLOW; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

FINNED TUBES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

ALGORITHM; HEAT EXCHANGER; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 0031954471     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7930(97)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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