The unusual behavior of local heat transfer coefficient in a circular tube with a bell-mouth inlet

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 187-194

  Tam, Lap Mou ^a   Ghajar, Afshin J ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCED CONVECTION; GLYCOLS; HEAT FLUX; INTAKE SYSTEMS; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

UNIFORM WALL HEAT FLUX;

HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGER; HEAT TRANSFER; PIPE;

EID: 0345055833     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-1777(97)10019-X     Document Type: Article

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