Critical heat flux on flow boiling of methanol-water mixtures in a diverging microchannel with artificial cavities

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 3156-3166

  Lin, P H ^a   Fu, B R ^a   Pan, Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Binary mixtures; Critical heat flux; Marangoni effect

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CAVITY; BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; CONVECTIVE BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; CRITICAL HEAT FLUX; DIVERGING MICROCHANNELS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW BOILING; MARANGONI EFFECTS; MASS FLUX; METHANOL-WATER MIXTURES; MOLAR FRACTIONS; ON FLOW; SIDE WALLS;

BINARY MIXTURES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT CONVECTION; LIQUID FILMS; METHANOL; MICROCHANNELS; NUCLEATE BOILING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TABLE LOOKUP;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 79956217298     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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