Effectiveness-thermal resistance method for heat exchanger design and analysis

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 53, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 2877-2884

  Guo, Z Y ^a   Liu, X B ^a   Tao, W Q ^b   Shah, R K ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Entransy dissipation; Entropy generation; Heat exchanger; Thermal resistance

Indexed keywords

ENTRANSY DISSIPATION; ENTROPY GENERATION; EQUIVALENT THERMAL; FLOW ARRANGEMENTS; HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN; MONOTONIC DECREASE; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; THERMAL RESISTANCE; THERMAL RESISTANCE METHOD; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ENTROPY; HEAT EXCHANGERS;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

EID: 77949914132     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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