Lower entropy generation in microchannels with laminar single phase flow

ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, ICNMM2010

Volumn , Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 1491-1500

  Galvis, E ^a   Culham, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL DEPTH; CHANNEL DIMENSION; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; CHANNEL SIZES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DEVELOPING LENGTH; ENTROPY GENERATION; ENTROPY GENERATION MINIMIZATION; ENTROPY GENERATION RATE; FLUID PROPERTY; FRICTION LOSS; ISOFLUX; MICRO-HEAT EXCHANGERS; NARROW CHANNEL; OPTIMIZATION ANALYSIS; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; UNIFORM HEAT FLUX;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP;

ENTROPY;

EID: 84856002630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/FEDSM-ICNMM2010-30031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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