Periodic bubble emission and appearance of an ordered bubble sequence (train) during condensation in a single microchannel

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 51, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 3420-3433

  Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Xu, Jinliang ^a   Thome, John R ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bubble train; Condensation; Microchannel; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; HEAT SINKS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BUBBLE TRAIN; NATURAL AIR CONVECTION; WEBER NUMBER;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONDENSATION; HEAT SINKS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 44649155285     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2007.11.025     Document Type: Article

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