Air-cooled heat exchanger inlet flow losses

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 771-786

  Meyer, C J ^a   Kroger D G ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT LOSSES;

AIR-COOLED HEAT EXCHANGERS; INLET AIR FLOW LOSSES;

INTAKE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0342854196     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(00)00083-1     Document Type: Article

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