Large convective heat transfer enhancement in microchannels with a train of coflowing immiscible or colloidal droplets

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Fischer, Magnus ^a   Juric, Damir ^b   Poulikakos, Dimos ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

colloidal suspensions; droplet laden flow; immiscible fluids; Marangoni effect; nanofluid; segmented flow; thermal transport

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; DROPLET-LADEN FLOW; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; MARANGONI EFFECT; NANO-FLUID; SEGMENTED FLOW; THERMAL TRANSPORT;

DROP FORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; NUSSELT NUMBER; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 78751643895     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002031     Document Type: Article

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