A study on the simulation and experiment of a microchannel counter-flow heat exchanger

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 14-15, 2010, Pages 2163-2172

  Dang, Thanhtrung ^a   Teng, Jyh Tong ^a   Chu, Jiann Cherng ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Micro heat exchanger; Pressure drop; Simulation; Temperature profile

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVENESS-NTU; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP; MASS FLOW RATE; MICRO HEAT EXCHANGER; MICRO-HEAT EXCHANGERS; MICROCHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SIMULATION; SIMULATION TEMPERATURE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DROP; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 77955469823     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2010.05.029     Document Type: Article

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