Numerical study of heat transfer in a rectangular channel with porous covering obstacles

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-58

  Yucel, Nuri ^a   Guven, Ragip Tolga ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Electronic cooling; Forced convection; Laminar flow; Porous cover

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY CONTROL; COOLING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BOTTOM WALLS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; CONTROL VOLUME METHODS; DARCY-BRINKMAN; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DISCRETE HEAT SOURCES; ELECTRONIC COOLING; FORCHHEIMER MODELS; HIGH-THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES; INERTIA COEFFICIENTS; LAMINAR FORCED CONVECTIONS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; POROUS COVER; POROUS MEDIUMS; RECTANGULAR CHANNELS; REYNOLDS; SOLID BLOCKS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIOS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 60349106885     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9260-6     Document Type: Article

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