Numerical simulation of incompressible laminar fluid flow in tubes with wire coil inserts

WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue , 2008, Pages 47-56

  Munoz Esparza D ^a   Perez Garcia J ^a   Sanmiguel Rojas, E ^b   Garcia Pinar A ^a   Solano Fernandez J P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heat exchangers; Heat transfer enhancement; Pressure drop; Wire coil inserts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DROPS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRICTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; THERMOANALYSIS; WIRE;

COMMERCIAL PACKAGES; DESIGN PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FANNING FRICTION FACTORS; FLUID FLOWS; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; INTERNAL FLOW STRUCTURES; ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS; LAMINAR FLUID FLOWS; NUMERICAL METHODOLOGIES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; REYNOLDS; ROUND TUBES; UNIFORM HEAT FLUXES; WIRE COIL INSERTS; WIRE-COILS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 58849148962     PISSN: 17433533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/HT080051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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