New correlation for natural convection of finned tube A-type air cooler

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 17-18, 2005, Pages 3053-3066

  Farhadi, F ^a   Davani, N ^a   Ardalan, P ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

A type air cooler; Condensers; Finned tubes; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; CONDENSERS (LIQUEFIERS); CORRELATION METHODS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

A-TYPE AIR COOLER; FINNED TUBES; STEAM FEEDING; STEAM PRESSURES;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 23844504956     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2005.03.016     Document Type: Article

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