Two-phase flow pressure drop characteristics in trapezoidal silicon microchannels

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 887-900

  Singh, Shiv Govind ^a   Bhide, Rohit R ^a   Duttagupta, Siddhartha P ^a   Puranik, Bhalchandra P ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Annular flow; Critical heat flux (CHF); Flow visualization; Heat transfer coefficient; Onset of boiling; Pressure instability

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PRESSURE; ANNULAR FLOWS; CRITICAL HEAT FLUX; CRITICAL HEAT FLUX (CHF); DRY-OUT; FLOW REGIMES; FLUID FLOW; HYDRAULIC DIAMETER; LOW FLOW; MASS FLOW RATE; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING POINTS; PRESSURE DROP CHARACTERISTIC; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; PRESSURE INSTABILITY; TRAPEZOIDAL SILICON; WORKING FLUID;

DEIONIZED WATER; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MICROCHANNELS; PRESSURE DROP; TABLE LOOKUP; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 72149134904     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2009.2019634     Document Type: Article

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