Quantitative assessment of the overall heat transfer coefficient U

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Sparrow, Eph ^a   Gorman, John ^a   Abraham, John ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat exchanger; Laminar flow; Numerical simulation; Turbulent flow; Variability of overall heat transfer coefficient

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; OVERALL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; PRESSURE-DRIVEN FLOWS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; UNIFORM WALL TEMPERATURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROCHANNELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 84878328971     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4023566     Document Type: Article

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