Numerical investigation of static flow instability in a low-pressure subcooled boiling channel

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 355-364

  Li, Y ^b   Yeoh, G H ^a   Tu, J Y ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLANTS; DRAG; FRICTION; HEAT FLUX; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BOILING CHANNELS; CRITICAL HEAT FLUX (CHF); SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; TWO-FLUID MODELS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 2342533872     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-003-0423-2     Document Type: Article

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