New alcohol solutions for heat pipes: Marangoni effect and heat transfer enhancement

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 51, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 6199-6207

  di Francescantonio, Nicola ^a   Savino, Raffaele ^a   Abe, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol solutions; Heat transfer; Marangoni effect

Indexed keywords

HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; MIXTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHASE INTERFACES; PIPE; QUARTZ; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; THERMOANALYSIS;

ALCOHOL SOLUTIONS; GLASS TUBES; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENTS; HOT ZONES; IR CAMERAS; LINEAR DEPENDENCES; LIQUID INTERFACES; MARANGONI EFFECT; MARANGONI EFFECTS; MASS FLOWS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL PERFORMANCES; WICKED HEAT PIPES; WORKING FLUIDS;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 55549083141     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.01.040     Document Type: Article

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