An investigation on flowing patterns of the airflow and its characteristics of heat and mass transfer in an island open display cabinet with goods

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1945-1957

  Wu, Yezheng ^a   Xie, Guozhen ^b   Chen, Zhongqi ^a   Niu, Lulin ^a   Sun, Dawei ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Display cabinet; Flowing pattern; Turbulent buoyant jet

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CONFINED FLOW; COOLING; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; JETS; MASS TRANSFER; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DISPLAY CABINET; FLOWING PATTERN; OUTLET GRILLS; TURBULENT BUOYANT JET;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 3042815186     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(03)00158-3     Document Type: Article

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