Numerical study of air forced convection in a channel provided with inclined ribs

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Manca, Oronzio ^a   Nardini, Sergio ^a   Ricci, Daniele ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forced convection; Heat transfer enhancement; Ribs; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

AIR; HEAT RESISTANCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID-FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; LOCAL TURBULENCE; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; RIB; RIBBED CHANNELS; ROUGH SURFACES; SUB-LAYERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELLING;

FORCED CONVECTION;

EID: 79952020648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21518629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5098/hmt.v2.1.3007     Document Type: Article

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