Flow boiling in horizontal flattened tubes: Part I - Two-phase frictional pressure drop results and model

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 3634-3644

  Quibén, Jesús Moreno ^a,b   Cheng, Lixin ^a,c   da Silva Lima, Ricardo J ^a   Thome, John R ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Wolverine LDA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diabatic; Experiment; Flattened tube; Flow boiling; Flow patterns; Frictional pressure drop; Model; Phenomenological; R22; R410A; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

DIABATIC; FLATTENED TUBE; FLOW BOILING; FRICTIONAL PRESSURE DROP; PHENOMENOLOGICAL; R22; R410A;

DROPS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRICTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TWO PHASE FLOW;

PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 65549099049     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.12.032     Document Type: Article

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