Flow and heat transfer characteristics of water and ethylene glycol-water in a multi-port serpentine meso-channel heat exchanger

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1615-1627

  Dehghandokht, Masoud ^a   Khan, Mesbah G ^b   Fartaj, Amir ^b   Sanaye, Sepehr ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethylene glycol water mixture; Meso channel heat exchanger; Multi port; Radiator; Serpentine; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AUTOMOTIVE RADIATORS; BOTTOM FACE; ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID FLOW; GLYCOL-WATER; GLYCOL-WATER MIXTURE; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HEAT TRANSFER SURFACES; MESO-CHANNEL HEAT EXCHANGER; MULTI-PORT; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; PARALLEL CHANNEL; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WORKING FLUID;

COOLANTS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MIXTURES; RADIATORS; SERPENTINE; SPECIFIC HEAT;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 79956110872     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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