Experimental investigation of forced and mixed convection heat transfer in a foam-filled horizontal rectangular channel

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 1313-1325

  Kurtbas, Irfan ^a   Celik, Nevin ^b  

^a DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Metal foams; Mixed convection; Porous media; Rectangular channel flow

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; EXPERIMENTS; FOAMS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; METALS; MIXED CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOANALYSIS; WALL FLOW;

CHANNEL HEIGHTS; CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFERS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; HORIZONTAL RECTANGULAR CHANNELS; METAL FOAMS; MIXED CONVECTION FLOWS; PORE DENSITIES; POROUS MEDIA; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL FLOW; RECTANGULAR CHANNELS; REYNOLDS; RICHARDSON NUMBERS; THREE VALUES; UNIFORM HEAT FLUXES;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 58149473988     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.07.050     Document Type: Article

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