Mechanisms of boiling in micro-channels: Critical assessment

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 288-297

  Thome, John R ^a   Consolini, Lorenzo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; BUBBLY FLOW; CHANNEL DIAMETERS; CONVECTIVE BEHAVIOR; CONVECTIVE BOILING; CRITICAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL HEAT TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER PROCESS; MACRO SCALE; MICRO-SCALES; MICROCHANNEL FLOW; MICROSCOPIC SCALE; NUCLEATE POOL BOILING; VAPOR QUALITY;

FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NUCLEATE BOILING; VAPORS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 77649298105     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630903312049     Document Type: Article

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