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A Survey on Flow Phenomena and Heat Transfer Through Expansion Geometry

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For researchers, flow through expansion geometry has become interesting in last four decades in various applications such as cooling equipment, mixing vessels, and many heat exchanger models. In this topic, lots of numerical as well as experimental works have been performed by many authors. This paper provides a detail review of flow phenomena and transfer of heat through expansion geometry. The current survey presents the solving techniques and methodologies which used to determine the flow characteristics and heat transfer on various expansion geometry with some modification. Moreover, different types of bifurcation (symmetry breaking and Hopf bifurcation) have been analyzed for different values of Recr (critical Reynolds number).

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    Sandip Saha

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Saha, S. (2021). A Survey on Flow Phenomena and Heat Transfer Through Expansion Geometry. In: Jha, K., Gulati, P., Tripathi, U.K. (eds) Recent Advances in Sustainable Technologies. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0976-3_25

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