Pressure losses and flow patterns in 3D axial flow between corrugated plates

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2442-2448

  Tavakoli, Ehsan ^a   Hosseini, Reza ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flow patterns; Pressure drop; Swirl; Vortex; Wavy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL COMPRESSIBILITY METHOD; CLOSED LOOPS; CORRUGATED PLATE; DEAD ZONES; DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLOW DIRECTION; FRICTION FACTORS; LINEAR CURVE; LOGARITHMIC SCALE; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; PARALLEL PLATES; POWER FUNCTIONS; PRESSURE LOSS; ROUGH ESTIMATION; SECOND ORDERS; TWO PLATES; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

AXIAL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; FRICTION; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRIBOLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

PARALLEL FLOW;

EID: 77955468731     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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