Thermal and hydraulic characteristics of nanofluid flow in a helically coiled tube heat exchanger

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1375-1383

  Mohammed, H A ^a   Narrein, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Heat transfer enhancement; Helically coiled tube heat exchanger; Nanofluids; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

COILED TUBES; CUO NANOPARTICLES; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HYDRAULIC CHARACTERISTIC; INNER TUBES; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; MASS FLOW RATE; NANOFLUID FLOW; NANOFLUIDS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PERFORMANCE INDICES; WORKING FLUID;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARALLEL FLOW; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84866888408     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2012.07.019     Document Type: Article

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