Visualization of convective boiling heat transfer in single microchannels with different shaped cross-sections

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 49, Issue 21-22, 2006, Pages 3884-3894

  Yen, Tzu Hsiang ^a   Shoji, Masahiro ^a   Takemura, Fumio ^a   Suzuki, Yuji ^b   Kasagi, Nobuhide ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUCLEATION; SPUTTERING; TRANSPARENCY;

NUCLEATION BUBBLES; SINGLE MICROCHANNELS; VAPOR QUALITY;

HEAT CONVECTION;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUCLEATION; SPUTTERING; TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 33746217935     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2005.12.024     Document Type: Article

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