Laminar flow heat transfer enhancement in a circular tube having integral transverse rib roughness and fitted with centre-cleared twisted-tape

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 727-735

  Bhattacharyya, Suvanjan ^a   Saha, Subhankar ^a   Saha, Sujoy Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Forced convection; Heat transfer enhancement; Laminar flow; Swirl flow; Transverse ribs; Twisted tapes

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DUCTS; CIRCULAR TUBES; ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FRICTION FACTORS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; NUSSELT NUMBER CORRELATION; RIB ROUGHNESS; SOLAR THERMAL; SWIRL FLOW; THERMOHYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE; TRANSVERSE RIBS; TWISTED TAPES;

FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

LAMINAR FLOW;

EID: 84869223861     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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