Experimental determination of shell side heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop for an oil cooler shell-and-tube heat exchanger with three different tube bundles

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 1001-1008

  Hosseini, R ^a   Hosseini Ghaffar, A ^a   Soltani, M ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b NIROO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Micro fin; Nusselt and Euler numbers; Oil cooler; Shell and tube

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MICRO-FIN; OIL COOLER; SHELL-AND-TUBE;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 33845588576     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2006.07.023     Document Type: Article

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