Spray cooling development effort for microgravity environments

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 813, Issue , 2006, Pages 134-144

  Rowden, Brian L ^a,b   Panneer Selvam, R ^a,b   Silk, Eric A ^c  

^a Power Electronics Leveling Solutions   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High heat fluxes; Microgravity environments; Spray cooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751223168     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2169189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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