Nonuniform overall heat transfer coefficients in conventional heat exchanger design theory-revisited

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 520-525

  Shah, R K ^a,b   Sekulic D P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems   (United States)

^c Karlja Petra I ^*  (Serbia)

Author keywords

Heat Exchangers; Modeling and Scaling; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ROETZEL'S METHOD;

HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

DESIGN; HEAT EXCHANGER; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0032077814     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2824281     Document Type: Article

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