Laminar to turbulent transition and heat transfer in a microreactor: Mathematical modeling and experiments

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 7447-7455

  Pohar, Andrej ^a   Plazl, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; GAS TURBINES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROCHANNELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE;

AQUEOUS; AVERAGE TEMPERATURES; CENTRAL CHANNELS; CONVECTION AND CONDUCTIONS; CRITICAL REYNOLDS NUMBERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FITTING PROCEDURES; INLET CHANNELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MICROCHANNEL GEOMETRIES; MICROREACTOR; MODEL CALCULATIONS; OUT-FLOWS; RECTANGULAR MICROCHANNELS; STEADY STATES; THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; TURBULENT TRANSITIONS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 54249099667     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8001765     Document Type: Article

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