The effect of temperature-dependent viscosity on entropy generation in curved square microchannel

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 52, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-91

  Guo, Jiangfeng ^a   Xu, Mingtian ^b   Tao, Yujia ^a   Huai, Xiulan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Curved square microchannels; Entropy generation; Heat transfer; Laminar flow; Numerical simulation; Temperature dependent viscosity

Indexed keywords

BRINKMAN NUMBER; CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE; ENTROPY GENERATION; MASS FLOW RATE; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; THERMODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; TOTAL ENTROPY; TRANSFER ENTROPY; WORKING FLUID;

ANILINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; TEMPERATURE;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84856619051     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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