Viscous dissipation effect on entropy generation for non-Newtonian fluids in microchannels

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1125-1129

  Hung, Y M ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Brinkman number; Entropy generation; Non Newtonian fluid; Viscous dissipation

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FORCED CONVECTION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; POWER GENERATION; RHEOLOGY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ANALYTICAL STUDY; BEJAN NUMBERS; BRINKMAN NUMBER; CIRCULAR MICROCHANNELS; CLOSED-FORM SOLUTIONS; ENERGY EQUATION; ENTROPY GENERATION; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOWS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; POWER-LAW INDEX; RADIAL DIRECTIONS; RELATIVE DEVIATIONS; SECOND-LAW ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHASING; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

ENTROPY;

EID: 50849104246     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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