Experimental study of heat transfer enhancement in narrow rectangular channel with longitudinal vortex generators

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 237, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 686-693

  Wang, Qiuwang ^a   Chen, Qiuyang ^a   Wang, Ling ^a,b   Zeng, Min ^a   Huang, Yanping ^c   Xiao, Zejun ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NUCLEAR POWER INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

IDENTICAL MASS FLOW (IMF); IDENTICAL PRESSURE DROP (IPD); IDENTICAL PUMPING POWER (IPP); LONGITUDINAL VORTEX GENERATORS (LVG);

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 33847337306     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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