Effect of exit-port geometry on the performance of a flow distribution manifold

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2689-2692

  Chen, Andrew W ^a   Sparrow, Ephraim M ^b  

^a 3M COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exit port geometry; Manifolds; Outflow uniformity; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR APERTURE; COMPARISON STUDY; EXIT-PORT GEOMETRY; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; LONGITUDINAL SLOT; MANIFOLDS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OUTFLOW UNIFORMITY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; TURBULENT FLOW;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

EID: 67349256928     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.12.035     Document Type: Article

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