Enhanced heat transfer with corrugated flow channel in anode side of direct methanol fuel cells

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 748-760

  Heidary, H ^a   Abbassi, A ^a   Kermani, M J ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Convection heat transfer; Corrugated channel; Direct methanol fuel cells; Partially porous channel

Indexed keywords

CORRUGATED CHANNEL; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFCS); ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLOWS; POROUS CHANNEL; RECTANGULAR SHAPES;

CATALYSTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 84884760669     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.08.040     Document Type: Article

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