Natural convection from an array of horizontal rectangular thick fins with short length

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 17-18, 2008, Pages 2371-2379

  Dialameh, L ^a   Yaghoubi, M ^a   Abouali, O ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Free convection; Heat transfer; Heat transfer enhancement; Laminar flow; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; LAMINAR FLOW; LIGHT METALS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BASE PLATES; CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIN ARRAYS; FIN GEOMETRIES; FIN SPACING; FINITE VOLUMES; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID FLOWING; FREE CONVECTION; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TWO TYPES;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 50849134584     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.01.020     Document Type: Article

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