Experimental investigation of mixed convection heat transfer in a horizontal and inclined rectangular channel

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 271-278

  Ozsunar, A ^a   Baskaya, S ^a   Sivrioglu, M ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CHANNEL FLOW; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

GRAETZ NUMBER; GRASHOF NUMBER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STEFAN-BOLTZMAN CONSTANT;

MIXED CONVECTION;

EID: 0036479018     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002310100258     Document Type: Article

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