The internal surface area basis, a key issue of modeling fouling in enhanced heat transfer tubes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4345-4349

  Li, Wei ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling tower; Enhanced tube; Fouling; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

FOULING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HEAT TRANSFER TUBES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

COOLING TOWER; FOULING; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0042020043     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(03)00254-0     Document Type: Article

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