Heat transfer and flow characteristics of fin-tube bundles with and without winglet-type vortex generators

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 696-702

  Kwak, K M ^a   Torii, K ^a   Nishino, K ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

VORTEX GENERATORS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0036864763     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-002-0528-2     Document Type: Article

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