Analyses of entransy dissipation, entropy generation and entransy-dissipation-based thermal resistance on heat exchanger optimization

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-39

  Cheng, Xuetao ^a   Zhang, Qinzhao ^a   Liang, Xingang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entransy dissipation; Entropy generation; Heat exchangers; Thermal resistance; Uniformity factor of temperature difference field

Indexed keywords

DAILY LIVES; ENTRANSY DISSIPATION; ENTROPY GENERATION; MINIMUM ENTROPY; MULTI-STREAM; OPTIMIZATION DESIGN; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TWO-STREAM; UNIFORMITY FACTOR;

ENTROPY; HEAT RESISTANCE; OPTIMIZATION;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 84856097292     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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