An investigation of convective cooling of an array of channel-mounted obstacles

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 967-982

  Zeng, Yong ^a   Vafai, Kambiz ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COOLING;

CHANNEL HEIGHT; CONVECTIVE COOLING; COOLING PERFORMANCE; COOLING PROCESS; FORCED CONVECTIVE COOLING; GEOMETRIC RATIOS; HEIGHT RATIO; LENGTH RATIO; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; REYNOLD NUMBER;

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EID: 67651205180     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780903012180     Document Type: Article

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