High-speed visualization of two-phase flow in a micro-scale pin-fin heat exchanger

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 861-869

  Cognata, Thomas J ^a   Hollingsworth, D Keith ^a   Witte, Larry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLOW RATE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT FLUX; MICROARRAYS; NUCLEATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

FLOW BLOCKAGE; M-SQUARE FINS; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 34547351520     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630701378309     Document Type: Article

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