Comparisons of local experimental results with numerical results of heat transfer enhancement of a flat tube bank fin with vortex generators

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 144-162

  Chen, Yu Ying ^a   Song, Ke Wei ^a   Wang, Liang Bi ^a   Sun, Dong Liang ^a  

^a LANZHOU JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; NAPHTHALENE; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; THERMOANALYSIS; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VORTEX FLOW;

FIN PATTERNS; FLAT TUBES; FLUID FLOWS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCES; NAPHTHALENE SUBLIMATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; TUBE BANKS; VORTEX GENERATORS;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149271030     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780802603204     Document Type: Article

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