Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement of finned flat tube bank fin with vortex generators mounted on both surfaces of the fin

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 959-967

  Song, Ke Wei ^a   Wang, Liang Bi ^a   Fan, Ju Fang ^a   Zhang, Yong Heng ^a   Liu, Song ^a  

^a LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLOW RATE; HEAT GENERATION; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MASS FLOW; TUBE BANK FIN; VORTEX GENERATORS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 43149105179     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-007-0339-3     Document Type: Article

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