Thermal performances of enhanced smooth and spiky twisted tapes for laminar and turbulent tubular flows

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 25-26, 2012, Pages 7651-7667

  Chang, Shyy Woei ^a   Guo, Ming Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Enhanced twisted tape; Passive heat transfer augmentation; Swirl tubes

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FANNING FRICTION FACTOR; FLOW REGIMES; HEAT TRANSFER AUGMENTATION; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; HEAT TRANSFER PROPERTIES; PRESSURE DROP COEFFICIENTS; SWIRL TUBES; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; TWISTED TAPES;

NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 84867547501     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.07.077     Document Type: Article

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