Frictional Performance of U-Type Wavy tubes

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 880-886

  Chen, Ing Youn ^a   Lai, Yee Kang ^a   Wang, Chi Chun ^b  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

CURVED CHANNELS;

FLOW OF WATER;

EID: 0142197659     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1601259     Document Type: Article

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