Investigation of flow and heat transfer in corrugated-undulated plate heat exchangers

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 449-462

  Ciofalo, M ^a   Di Piazza, I ^a   Stasiek, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FRICTION; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

CORRUGATED PLATES; CORRUGATED UNDULATED PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL THERMOGRAPHY; WALL PRESSURE TAPPINGS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0034270643     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002310000106     Document Type: Article

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