Study on heat transfer enhancement of oscillating-flow heat pipe for drying

Drying Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 723-729

  Xian, Haizhen ^a   Liu, Dengying ^a,b   Shang, Fumin ^a   Yang, Yongping ^a   Du, Xiaoze ^a   Mujumdar, Arun S ^c   Huang, Lixin ^d  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Drying; Nonuniform cross section; Oscillating flow heat pipe; Pulse heating

Indexed keywords

DRYING; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

NON-UNIFORM CROSS SECTION CHANNEL; OSCILLATING-FLOW HEAT PIPE; PULSE HEATING;

HEAT PIPES;

DRYING; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 34247559132     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930701291173     Document Type: Article

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