Condensation pressure drop in circular microchannels

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 28-35

  Garimella, Srinivas ^a   Agarwal, Akhil ^a   Killion, Jesse D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS FLUX; MICROCHANNELS; VOID FRACTION;

CHANNEL FLOW; CONDENSATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; INTERPOLATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRIGERANTS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 14644422129     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630590907176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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