Performance analysis of plate fins circumscribing elliptic tubes

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 86-94

  Kundu, B ^a   Maiti, B ^b   Das, P K ^b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); GEOMETRY; HEAT CONVECTION; OPTIMIZATION;

CONDUCTION EQUATION; RECTANGULAR PLATE FINS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMO-GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 33745009298     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630500458856     Document Type: Article

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