Numerical investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow in plate heat exchanger using nanofluids

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-103

  Tiwari, Arun Kumar ^a,b   Ghosh, Pradyumna ^a   Sarkar, Jahar ^a   Dahiya, Harshit ^a   Parekh, Jigar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b GLA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

CFD analysis; Experiment; Flow characteristics; Nanofluids; Optimization; Plate heat exchanger

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; MIXTURES; NANOFLUIDICS; OPTIMIZATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VELOCITY;

CFD ANALYSIS; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW; NANOFLUIDS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPTIMUM CONCENTRATION; PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS; USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84904563851     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2014.06.015     Document Type: Article

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