Condensation heat transfer and pressure gradient inside multiport minichannels

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 45-55

  Cavallini, Alberto ^a   Del Col, Davide ^a   Doretti, Luca ^a   Matkovic, Marko ^a   Rossetto, Luisa ^a   Zilio, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; CHANNEL FLOW; CONDENSATION; COOLING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANTS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

GRAVITY ACCELERATION; HEAT FLOW RATE; MINICHANNELS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 14644415438     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630590907194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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