Influence of flow arrangement on the performance of an aluminium microchannel heat exchanger

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1285, Issue , 2010, Pages 576-590

  Dang, Thanhtrung ^a   Teng, Jyh Tong ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; micro heat exchanger; performance index; pressure drop; simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649848957     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3510579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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