Numerical simulation of roughness effect on microchannel heat transfer and pressure drop in laminar flow

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1518-1530

  Croce, Giulio ^a   D'Agaro, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HEAT TRANSFER RATE; POISEUILLE NUMBER; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYERS;

LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 18744406993     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/38/10/005     Document Type: Article

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