Enhancement of heat transfer using delta-winglet type vortex generators with a common-flow-up arrangement

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 912-928

  Pal, A ^a   Bandyopadhyay, D ^b   Biswas, G ^a,c   Eswaran, V ^a,d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^c CSIR CENTRAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF ATTACK; ENERGY EQUATION; ENHANCEMENT OF HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID LAYER; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; HEATED WALL; LONGITUDINAL VORTICES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; STRONG SWIRLING; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; VORTEX GENERATORS;

AIR; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT EXCHANGERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 84864049164     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2012.677322     Document Type: Article

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