An Expermentally Validated Model for Two-Phase Pressure Drop in the Intermittent Flow Regime for Noncircular Microchannels

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 887-894

  Garimella, Srinivas ^a   Killion, Jesse D ^a   Coleman, John W ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); HEAT TRANSFER; REFRIGERANTS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

MICROCHANNELS;

PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 0142259748     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1601258     Document Type: Article

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