Forced convective heat transfer enhancement in a tube with its core partially filled with a porous medium

Open Transport Phenomena Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Yang, C ^a,b   Liu, W ^a   Nakayama, A ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular tube flow; Forced convection; Heat transfer enhancement; Porous media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863116633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1877729500901010001     Document Type: Article

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