Effects of different fin spacings on the nusselt number and reynolds number in perforated finned heat exchangers

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 399-407

  Yakar, Gulay ^a   Karabacak, Rasim ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR LOCATIONS; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; COUNTERFLOW; DIAMETER RATIO; FIN SPACING; FLOW ARRANGEMENTS; FLOW DIRECTION; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP; HEATED FLUIDS; HEATING TUBES; OPTIMUM FIN SPACING;

EXPERIMENTS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARALLEL FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 78650766083     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2010.483875     Document Type: Article

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