Fully developed temperature distribution in a porous saturated duct of elliptical cross section with viscous dissipation effects and entropy generation analysis

Heat Transfer Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 237-245

  Hooman, K ^a  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENTROPY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT LOSSES; HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DUCT WALLS; ELLIPTICAL CROSS SECTIONS; ENTROPY GENERATION ANALYSIS; VISCOUS DISSIPATION EFFECTS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 29144437364     PISSN: 10642285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/HeatTransRes.v36.i3.70     Document Type: Article

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