An experimental study of convective heat transfer in silicon microchannels with different surface conditions

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2547-2556

  Wu, H Y ^a   Cheng, Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Convective heat transfer; Hydrophilicity; Microchannels; Roughness

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SILICON; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MICROCHANNELS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CHANNEL FLOW; CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROPHILICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0037908834     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(03)00035-8     Document Type: Article

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