Obtaining closure for fin-and-tube heat exchanger modeling based on volume averaging theory (VAT)

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Feng ^a,b   Hansen, Nicholas E ^a   Geb, David J ^a   Catton, Ivan ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

closure; heat exchanger; length scale; volume averaging theory

Indexed keywords

AIR SIDES; CLOSURE; COMPLEX DATA; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; EXPERIMENT DATA; FIN AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER; FRICTION FACTOR CORRELATION; FRICTION FACTORS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN; LENGTH SCALE; LOCAL FRICTION; MACRO SCALE; MULTIPLE-PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; ORIGINAL STRUCTURES; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME; SINGLE CURVES; VOLUME AVERAGING THEORY;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FRICTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; TRIBOLOGY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 80053283564     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004393     Document Type: Article

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