Thermally dependent viscosity and non-Newtonian flow in a double-pipe helical heat exchanger

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 862-868

  Rennie, Timothy J ^a   Raghavan, G S Vijaya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Heat exchanger; Helical coil; Non Newtonian

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; VISCOSITY;

HELICAL COIL; NON-NEWTONIAN;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 33845628616     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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