Geometrical Effects of Duct on the Entropy Generation in the Laminar Forced Convection Separated Flow

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

Nasrin Aminzadeh ¹ , Shima Sotoodehnia ² , Meysam Atashafrooz ³

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sirjan University of Technology, Sirjan, Iran
2 - Sirjan Branch. Islamic Azad University, Sirjan, Iran.
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sirjan University of Technology, Sirjan, Iran

Received: 2018-05-18 Accepted : 2018-09-10 Published : 2018-09-10

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