Comparison study of the counter-flow regenerative evaporative heat exchangers with numerical methods

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 211-224

  Pandelidis, Demis ^a   Anisimov, Sergey ^a   Worek, William M ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel perforations; Indirect evaporative cooling; Mathematical model; Regenerative heat and mass exchanger

Indexed keywords

COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CHANNEL PERFORATIONS; COOLING PERFORMANCE; EVAPORATIVE AIR COOLING; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER PROCESS; INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING; MASS EXCHANGERS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 84927660365     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.03.058     Document Type: Article

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