Experiments in single-phase natural circulation miniloops with different working fluids and geometries

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 130, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Garibaldi, Pietro ^a   Misale, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dielectric fluid; Loop inclination; Minilop; Natural circulation; Reduced gravity; Single phase; Water

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL CONVECTION;

DIELECTRIC FLUID; LOOP INCLINATION; MINILOP; NATURAL CIRCULATION; REDUCED GRAVITY; SINGLE-PHASE;

FLUIDS;

EID: 56449091117     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2948393     Document Type: Article

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