Internal and external fin heat transfer enhancement technique for latent heat thermal energy storage in triplex tube heat exchangers

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 147-156

  Al Abidi, Abduljalil A ^a,b   Mat, Sohif ^a   Sopian, K ^a   Sulaiman, M Y ^a   Mohammad, Abdulrahman Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SANA'A COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Heat transfer enhancement; Melting; Phase change material; Triplex tube heat exchanger

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FIN HEAT TRANSFER; FIN LENGTH; FIN THICKNESS; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; MELTING TIME; PER UNIT; PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL (PCM); SIMULATED RESULTS; SOFTWARE PROGRAM; STEFAN NUMBERS; STORAGE ENERGY DENSITY; TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; LATENT HEAT; MELTING; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 84873973391     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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