Numerical analysis of wooden porous media effects on heat transfer from a staggered tube bundle

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Layeghi, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Forced convection; Laminar and incompressible fluid flow; Numerical analysis; Staggered tube bundle; Wooden porous media

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

DARCY NUMBER; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT;

FORCED CONVECTION;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FORCED CONVECTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 40949089781     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2780184     Document Type: Article

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