Performance of gas-to-gas micro-heat exchangers

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Miwa, J ^a   Asako, Y ^a   Hong, C ^b   Faghri, M ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Gas to gas; Heat exchanger; Microscale; Ntu

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN METHOD; BULK TEMPERATURES; CHANNEL HEIGHT; EFFECTIVENESS; FLOW PASSAGE; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT FLUX VARIATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; MICRO-HEAT EXCHANGERS; MICRO-SCALES; MICROSCALE; NUMBER OF TRANSFER UNITS; NUMERICAL METHODOLOGIES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLANE CHANNELS; TEMPERATURE CONTOURS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TWO-STREAM;

CLIMATOLOGY; GASES; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL FLOW;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 77949903139     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3013828     Document Type: Article

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