Pressure drop, boiling heat transfer and flow patterns during flow boiling in a single microchannel

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 730-737

  Cheol, Huh ^a   Moo, Hwan Kim ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MEMS; PRESSURE DROP;

FRICTIONAL PRESSURE; MICROSCALE CHANNEL; REAL-TIME FLOW; VAPOR QUALITY;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 34250205206     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630701328213     Document Type: Article

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