Refrigerant pressure drop in chevron and bumpy style flat plate heat exchangers

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-222

  Jassim, E W ^a   Newell, T A ^a   Chato, J C ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Plate heat exchangers; Pressure drop; Two phase

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DATA REDUCTION; HEATING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ADIABATIC PRESSURE DROP; MASS FLUXES; PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS; TWO-PHASE;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

HEAT EXCHANGER; PLATE; PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANT;

EID: 29244462977     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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