Flow area structure generation in point to area or area to point flows

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 2609-2623

  Ghodoossi, Lotfollah ^a   Eǧrican, Nilüfer ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Constructal theory; Cost minimization; Optimization; Tree networks

Indexed keywords

COSTS; HEAT CONDUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

POINT FLOWS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037880525     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-8904(03)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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