A composite heat transfer correlation for saturated flow boiling in small channels

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 2110-2118

  Bertsch, Stefan S ^a   Groll, Eckhard A ^a   Garimella, Suresh V ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Flow boiling; Heat transfer; Microchannel; Minichannel

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; NUCLEATE BOILING; THERMOANALYSIS; WETTING;

CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFERS; CORRELATION; DATA POINTS; DATA SETS; FLOW BOILING; FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFERS; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATIONS; HYDRAULIC DIAMETERS; MASS FLUXES; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERRORS; MICROCHANNEL; MINICHANNEL; NON-WETTING FLUIDS; PREDICTIVE CORRELATIONS; SATURATED FLOWS; SATURATION TEMPERATURES; SMALL CHANNELS; VAPOR QUALITIES;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 59049097250     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.10.022     Document Type: Article

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