The optimal fin spacing for three-row flat tube bank fin mounted with vortex generators

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-101

  Shi, Baizhan ^a   Wang, Liangbi ^a   Gen, Feng ^a   Zhang, Yongheng ^a  

^a LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MOUNTINGS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

FIN SPACING; FIN THICKNESS; VORTEX GENERATORS (VG);

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 33749237514     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-006-0093-y     Document Type: Article

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