Flow map and measurement of void fraction and heat transfer coefficient using an image analysis technique for flow boiling of water in a silicon microchannel

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Singh, S G ^a   Jain, A ^a   Sridharan, A ^a   Duttagupta, S P ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR FLOWS; BISTABLE; FLOW BOILING OF WATER; FLOW FREQUENCIES; FLOW REGIME MAP; FLOW REGIMES; HIGH HEAT FLUX; HIGH-FLOW RATE; HYDRAULIC DIAMETER; IMAGE ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LOCAL VOID FRACTION; MASS FLOW RATE; SILICON MICROCHANNELS; SINGLE-PHASE LIQUIDS; WATER FLOWS; WORK FOCUS;

BOILING LIQUIDS; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW RATE; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HYDRAULICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROCHANNELS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WATER ANALYSIS;

VOID FRACTION;

EID: 67849128765     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/19/7/075004     Document Type: Article

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