A flow boiling microchannel evaporator plate for fuel cell thermal management

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 877-884

  Garrity, Patrick T ^a   Klausner, James F ^a   Mei, Renwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; FUEL CELLS; GRAVITATION; HEAT FLUX; MICROCHANNELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW BOILING; SQUARE CHANNELS; THERMOSYPHONS;

EVAPORATORS;

EID: 34547328789     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630701378333     Document Type: Article

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