The effects of liquid-vapor coupling and non-Darcian transport on asymmetrical disk-shaped heat pipes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2095-2113

  Zhu, N ^a   Vafai, K ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VAPORS; VELOCITY;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NON DARCIAN TRANSPORT; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COUPLING; DARCIAN; HEAT; LIQUID-VAPOUR; PIPES; TRANSPORT;

EID: 0030176468     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(95)00279-0     Document Type: Article

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