Heat transfer influenced by turbulent airflow inside an axially rotating diffuser

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-19

  Bajcar, Tom ^a   Širok, Brane ^a   Hočevar, Marko ^a   Trenc, Ferdinand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Diffuser; Infrared thermography; Swirl flow; Temperature field; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT TRANSFER; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; SWIRLING FLOW; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TURBULENT FLOW; WALL FLOW;

AXIALLY ROTATING DIFFUSER; INNER WALL SURFACE; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENT AIRFLOW;

DIFFUSERS (FLUID);

EID: 37549038620     PISSN: 13866184     EISSN: 15731987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-007-9089-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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