Winglet-type vortex generators with common-flow-up configuration for fin-tube heat exchangers

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-219

  Jain, A ^a   Biswas, Gautam ^a   Maurya, D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS; HEAT TRANSFER; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STEAM CONDENSERS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

VORTEX GENERATORS;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 0242493518     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780307325     Document Type: Article

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