Extended insight into the metastable liquid region behavior in an adiabatic capillary tube

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 107-123

  Bittle, Robert R ^a   Carter, Jason A ^b   Oliver, Jason V ^c  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bloom Engineering Co   (United States)

^c TAC Americas Energy Solutions Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INTAKE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE; VAPORIZATION; WALL FLOW;

ADIABATIC CAPILLARY TUBE; FLASH POINT LOCATION; MASS FLOW RATE; METASTABLE LIQUID;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 0035302017     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2001.10391266     Document Type: Article

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