Gas/liquid flow in plate-and-frame heat exchangers - Part II: Two-phase multiplier and flow pattern analysis

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 12-21

  Tribbe, C ^a   Muller Steinhagen H M ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CHANNEL FLOW; CORRELATION METHODS; CURVE FITTING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

ADIABATIC FLOW; CHEVRON ANGLE; FLOW PATTERN ANALYSIS; LOCKHART-MARTINELLI PARAMETER; PLATE-AND-FRAME HEAT EXCHANGER; SINGLE-PHASE LIQUID PRESSURE DROP;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0035240746     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630150215686     Document Type: Article

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