Thermodynamic analysis and optimization of air-cooled heat exchangers

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-44

  Salimpour, Mohammad Reza ^a   Bahrami, Zabihollah ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-COOLED HEAT EXCHANGER; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; ENTROPY GENERATION; ENTROPY GENERATION RATE; EXTERNAL FLOW; FLOW PARAMETERS; FLUID FLOW; NEW CORRELATIONS; PRESSURE LOSS; SECOND LAW ANALYSIS; THERMO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; TOTAL ENTROPY;

COOLING SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOANALYSIS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 79951958119     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-010-0672-9     Document Type: Article

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