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Enhancement of Convective Heat Transfer

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An extended review of heat transfer enhancement in single-phase forced convection, also referred to as augmentation and intensification of heat transfer, is presented. A variety of techniques and devices have been developed in the literature, which are broadly categorized as passive or active techniques. The former, and particularly those that have provided more viable industrial usage, are evaluated in this review, and their thermal and hydrodynamic performance characteristics are highlighted. In many cases, to aid the heat exchanger or thermal device designer, generalized correlations that predict the respective performance have been recommended. Also, some aspects of the performance of a select and potentially viable active techniques as well as the use of compound enhancement, where more than one method is used together, are briefly discussed.

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Acknowledgments

Partial support from ARPA-E, US Department of Energy, particularly for the evaluation of convective enhancement in plate-fin and tube-fin flows, is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Francis A. Kulacki

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    Renato Cotta

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, USA

    Kambiz Vafai

  3. Herff College of Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

    Sumanta Acharya

  4. Gas Technology Institute, Illinois, Illinois, USA

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Manglik, R.M. (2017). Enhancement of Convective Heat Transfer. In: Kulacki, F. (eds) Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32003-8_14-1

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