Numerical modeling of rigid media evaporative cooler

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 636-643

  Beshkani, A ^a   Hosseini, R ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Corrugated; Efficiency; Media evaporative cooler; Pressure drop; Projection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRUGATED MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE DROP; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CONSIDERED; DECREASING; RESULTS; SOLVED;

EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 28244497784     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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