Heat transfer and pressure drop correlations for the multi-louvered fin compact heat exchangers

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1506-1515

  Dong, Junqi ^a   Chen, Jiangping ^a   Chen, Zhijiu ^a   Zhang, Wenfeng ^b   Zhou, Yimin ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Yinlun Machinery Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation; Flat tube; Heat transfer; Multi louvered fin

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE DROP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLAT TUBES; MEAN DEVIATIONS; MULTI-LOUVERED FINS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 33947276148     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2006.11.023     Document Type: Article

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