Analytic solution for heat transfer of wet fins on account of all nonlinearity effects

Energy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 354-367

  Kundu, Balaram ^a,b   Lee, Kwan Soo ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Analytical; Efficiency; Longitudinal fins; Optimization; Variable heat and mass transfer coefficient; Variable thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FORCED CONVECTION; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MASS TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; ANALYTICAL; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORM METHOD; DRY SURFACES; FIN EFFICIENCY; FIN MATERIALS; FIN SURFACE; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HUMIDITY RATIO; LONGITUDINAL FIN; MASS TRANSFER PROCESS; NONLINEAR TERMS; NONLINEARITY EFFECT; OPTIMIZATION PARAMETER; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VARIABLE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WET FINS; WET SURFACES;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NONLINEARITY; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84859963371     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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