Abstract: In cooling towers packed with trickle or splash fills, which have anisotropic flow resistance, the air flow through the fill is oblique or in cross-counterflow to the water flow, particularly ...

Abstract: Cooling tower inlet losses are the flow losses or viscous dissipation of mechanical energy affected directly by the cooling tower inlet design, which according to the counterflow natural draft ...

Abstract: An existing analytical method for predicting the entrance region pressure drop and relating effects in straight ducts of arbitrary cross section is generalized to include the application of ...

Abstract: The rate of heat, mass, and momentum transfer in the rain zone of three counterflow cooling tower geometries is analyzed using simplifying assumptions and numerical integration. The objective ...

Abstract: The development of an efficient and reliable method of evaluating the performance of an air-cooled steam condenser (ACC) under windy conditions using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is presented. ...

Abstract: Air-cooled steam condensers (ACSCs) are increasingly employed to reject heat in modern power plants. Unfortunately, these cooling systems become less effective under windy conditions and when ...

Abstract: The inlet loss coefficients for dry, isotropically packed, circular and rectangular counterflow cooling towers are determined experimentally and empirical correlations are formulated to fit this ...