Forced convection heat transfer enhancement by porous pin fins in rectangular channels

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Yang, Jian ^a   Zeng, Min ^a   Wang, Qiuwang ^a   Nakayama, Akira ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFD simulation; Forced convection; Heat transfer enhancement; Porous pin fin channel

Indexed keywords

CFD SIMULATIONS; COLD FLUID; DARCY MODEL; ENERGY MODEL; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FORCED CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; FORCED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PIN-FINS; PORE DENSITIES; POROUS MEDIA; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; TWO-EQUATION;

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 77955291132     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000708     Document Type: Article

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