Laminar counterflow parallel-plate heat exchangers: Exact and approximate solutions

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 53, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 4885-4898

  Vera, Marcos ^a   Liñán, Amable ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Counterflow; Eigenfunction expansions; Heat exchangers; Laminar; Parallel plate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; BULK TEMPERATURES; COUNTERFLOW; EIGENFUNCTION EXPANSIONS; EIGENVALUES; ENTRANCE REGION; LAMINAR COUNTERFLOW; LOCAL HEAT; MULTI-LAYERED; OVERALL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; PARALLEL PLATES; SIMPLIFIED EXPRESSIONS; SYMBOLIC ALGEBRA; TEMPERATURE FIELD; THEORETICAL RESULT; WHITTAKER FUNCTION;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; EXPANSION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LAMINAR FLOW;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 77955513596     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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