Active control of flow and heat transfer in silicon microchannels

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Guohua ^a   Xu, Jinliang ^a   Yang, Yongping ^b   Zhang, Wei ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; BOILING FLOWS; BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; BUBBLE FREQUENCY; BUBBLE NUCLEATION; DEMAND CURVES; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FLOW DOWNSTREAM; HEAT TRANSFER DEVICE; HEATER SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HYDRAULIC DIAMETER; LIQUID PHASIS; MASS FLUX; MICRO-HEATERS; MICRON SIZE; PULSE VOLTAGE; SILICON MICROCHANNELS; START-UP STAGE; SUBCOOLED LIQUID; SUPERHEATED LIQUIDS; THERMAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM; VAPOR FLOWS; WORKING FLUID;

BOILING LIQUIDS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; METHANOL; MICROCHANNELS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VAPORS;

SEED;

EID: 77949900141     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/20/4/045006     Document Type: Article

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