Spray cooling modeling: Droplet sub-cooling effect on heat transfer

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 969, Issue , 2008, Pages 104-111

  Johnston, Joseph E ^a,b   Selvam, R P ^a,b   Silk, Eric A ^c  

^a Power Electronics Leveling Solutions LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Multi phase; Spray cooling; Sub cooling; Thin film

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349085398     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2844942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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