Pressure drop increase of forced convective condensation inside horizontal coiled wire inserted tubes

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1220-1226

  Akhavan Behabadi, M A ^a   Salimpour, M R ^b   Pazouki, V A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coiled wire; Condensation; Empirical correlation; Pressure drop; R 134a

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; CONDENSERS (LIQUEFIERS); DROPS; FLUID MECHANICS; LANDFORMS; NANOFLUIDICS; PRESSURE DROP; REFRIGERANTS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); TESTING; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WIRE;

COILED WIRE; CONVECTIVE CONDENSATION; COUNTER FLOWS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HORIZONTAL TUBES; MASS FLOW RATES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; R-134A; WIRE GEOMETRIES;

CONDENSER TUBES;

EID: 50849117481     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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