Correlations of flow maldistribution parameters in an air cooled heat exchanger

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-165

  Habib, M A ^a   Ben Mansour, R ^a   Said, S A M ^a   Al Bagawi, J J ^b,c   Al Mansour, K M ^b,d  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Engineering Development Division

^d Consulting Services Department ^*

Author keywords

Correlations; Flow maldistribution; Heat exchanger

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW RATE; FLOW VELOCITY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOMENTUM; NOZZLES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

FLOW MALDISTRIBUTION; MASS FLOW RATE; STANDARD DEVIATION;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW RATE; FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOMENTUM; NOZZLES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

EID: 38349192298     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1518     Document Type: Article

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