An experimental and numerical investigation of fluid flow in a cross-corrugated channel

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 585-593

  Liu, Fung Bao ^a   Tsai, Ying Chi ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT POINTS; CROSS SECTION; CROSS-CORRUGATED CHANNELS; EXACT GEOMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUID FLOW; FRICTION FACTORS; HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE; LOCAL FLOWS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

FLUIDS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 77954565330     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-010-0605-7     Document Type: Article

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