The Use of Porous Fins for Heat Transfer Augmentation in Parallel-Plate Channels

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 409-420

  Hamdan, Mohammad ^a   Al Nimr, Moh'd A ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Darcy Brinkman Forchheimer model; Heat exchanger; Heat transfer enhancement; Porous fin

Indexed keywords

DARCY NUMBER; DARCY-BRINKMAN-FORCHHEIMER MODEL; FIN THICKNESS; FLOW HYDRODYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER AUGMENTATION; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; INERTIAL COEFFICIENTS; INNER WALLS; LAMINAR FORCED CONVECTIONS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; PARALLEL PLATES; PARALLEL-PLATE CHANNELS; POROUS FIN; POROUS SUBSTRATES; PUMPING PRESSURE; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

DUCTS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARALLEL FLOW; POROUS PLATES; PUMPS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

DARCY LAW; FLOW MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE FIELD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUBSTRATE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 77955853542     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9510-2     Document Type: Article

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