Effect of temperature and flow nonuniformity on transient behaviour of crossflow heat exchanger

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 51, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 2583-2592

  Mishra, Manish ^a   Das, P K ^b   Sarangi, Sunil ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Crossflow; Heat exchanger; Maldistribution; Nonuniformity; Transient behaviour

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CROSSFLOW; MALDISTRIBUTION; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EID: 41649106211     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2007.07.054     Document Type: Article

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