Geometric strategies for attainment of identical outflows through all of the exit ports of a distribution manifold in a manifold system

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 3552-3560

  Tong, Jimmy C K ^a   Sparrow, Ephraim M ^a   Abraham, John P ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collection manifold; Computational fluid dynamics; Distribution manifold; Flow uniformity

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION MANIFOLD; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DISTRIBUTION MANIFOLD; DISTRIBUTION MANIFOLDS; FLOW UNIFORMITY; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; LINEAR TAPERING; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OUTFLOW CHANNEL; PARAMETER VALUES; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 69449103825     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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