An empirical study on the pressure drop characteristics of nanofluid flow inside helically coiled tubes

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 206-213

  Fakoor Pakdaman, M ^a,b   Akhavan Behabadi, M A ^a,b   Razi, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Helical and straight tubes; MWCNT; Nanofluid; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

COILED TUBES; DIAMETER RATIO; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HELICAL AND STRAIGHT TUBES; ISOTHERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; MWCNT; NANOFLUID FLOW; NANOFLUIDS; PRESSURE DROP CHARACTERISTIC; RATE OF PRESSURE; TECHNIQUES USED; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEST SECTIONS; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; TUBE GEOMETRY; TUBE WALLS; WORKING FLUID;

EXPERIMENTS; LAMINAR FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84871714601     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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