Horseshoe vortex studies in the passage of a model plate-fin-and-tube heat exchanger

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 340-351

  Sahin, Besir ^a   Ozturk, Nurhan Adil ^b   Gurlek, Cahit ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Confined flow; Fin tube heat exchanger; Horseshoe vortex; PIV; Wake flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; DUCTS; FLOW SEPARATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKES;

BOUNDARY LAYER SEPARATION; FIN-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER; HORSESHOE VORTEX; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; DUCTS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLOW SEPARATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKES;

EID: 37549031253     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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