Experimental study on heat transfer coefficient between air and liquid in the cross-flow heat-source tower

Building and Environment

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 205-213

  Wen, Xiantai ^a   Liang, Caihua ^a   Zhang, Xiaosong ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooling tower; Experimentation; Heat transfer coefficient; Modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW-RATE; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMBIENT AIR; CROSS FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPERIMENTATION; FINITE-VOLUME; HEAT PUMPS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HEATING SEASON; INLET AIR TEMPERATURES; LIQUID FLOW RATES; LIQUID TEMPERATURE; REGRESSION METHOD; TRANSFER RATIO; WATER CHILLER;

AIR; COOLING; COOLING TOWERS; FLOW RATE; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MODELS; TOWERS; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS;

LIQUIDS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; CORRELATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT SOURCE; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84861975839     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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