A combined study of heat and mass transfer in an infant incubator with an overhead screen

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 531-541

  Ginalski, Maciej K ^a   Nowak, Andrzej J ^a   Wrobel, Luiz C ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; CFD; Coupled heat and mass transfer; Incubators; Overhead screens

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER BASED MODEL; INCUBATORS; OVERHEAD SCREENS; USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS (UDF);

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; GEOMETRY; HEAT LOSS; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INCUBATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; INCUBATORS, INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33847271589     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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