Refrigerant condensation flow regimes in enhanced tubes and their effect on heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 506-520

  Liebenberg, Leon ^a   Meyer, Josua P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; MASS TRANSFER; PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANTS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

REFRIGERANT CONDENSATION FLOW; VOID FRACTION MODELS;

HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 41449110938     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630801891532     Document Type: Article

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