Numerical Investigation on Heat Transfer and Performance Number of Nanofluid Flow inside a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Filled with Porous Media

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

Ehsan Aminian ¹ , Babak Ahmadi ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Received: 2018-06-08 Accepted : 2018-12-04 Published : 2018-12-04

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