Entransy dissipation number and its application to heat exchanger performance evaluation

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2708-2713

  Guo, Jiang Feng ^a   Cheng, Lin ^a   Xu, Ming Tian ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entransy; Entransy dissipation number; Entropy generation; Heat exchanger effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349418577     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0295-z     Document Type: Article

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