Experiments on the laminar/turbulent transition of liquid flows in rectangular micro channels

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, ICNMM2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 845-852

  Wibel, Wolf ^a   Ehrhard, Peter ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROSCOPIC CHANNELS; TURBULENT TRANSITION;

ASPECT RATIO; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; LAMINAR FLOW; STAINLESS STEEL; TURBULENT FLOW;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 37249065122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICNMM2007-30037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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