Condensation pressure drops in circular microchannels

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels (ICMM2004)

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 649-656

  Garimella, Srinivas ^a   Agarwal, Akhil ^a   Killion, Jesse D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; DATA REDUCTION; FRICTION; HYDRAULICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANTS; SURFACE TENSION;

CIRCULAR MICROCHANNELS; FLOW REGIMES; HYDRAULIC DIAMETER; MASS FLUX;

CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 4544294217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/icmm2004-2393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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