A review on entropy generation in natural and mixed convection heat transfer for energy systems

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 911-920

  Oztop, Hakan F ^a,b   Al Salem, Khaled ^b  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Energy; Entropy generation; Mixed convection; Natural convection; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY INDUCED FLOW; ENERGY; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENTROPY GENERATION; ENTROPY GENERATION MINIMIZATION; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; SECOND LAW ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

BUOYANCY; ENCLOSURES; MIXED CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 82355169494     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2011.09.012     Document Type: Review

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