A thermal model for prediction of the Nusselt number in a pipe with chaotic flow

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1717-1730

  Lemenand, Thierry ^a   Peerhossaini, Hassan ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Chaos; Chaotic advection; Conservative dynamical system; Convective heat transfer; Heat exchanger; Heat exchanger reactor; Numerical modelling; Nusselt number

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CHAOTIC ADVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGER-REACTORS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0036785723     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(02)00075-3     Document Type: Article

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