Heat transfer studies in microchannels

• Main Author: Mahulikar Shripad Prabhakar.
• Other Authors: Tso, Chih Ping
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13406
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

From a survey on studies on convection in microchannels, the Brinkman number is proposed as a parameter for correlating the Nusselt number. This proposal emerges from a dimensional analysis of the variables influencing the laminar forced convective heat transfer in microchannels, and explains the hi...