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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 70, 2016 - Issue 2
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Original Articles

Novel approach of thermal modeling of partially dry–wet chilled water cooling coil under unit and nonunit Lewis number conditions

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Pages 164-181 | Received 10 Jan 2016, Accepted 11 Mar 2016, Published online: 23 Jun 2016

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